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1936

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1995

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Drawing, Design for a Cup

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1936 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is pen and black, red ink, graphite on cream tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra.

Its dimensions are

25.9 x 21.1cm (10 3/16 x 8 5/16in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, lower center: COUPE; lower right: J.P./36/1.; center right: TUBES; in graphite at top line of base: X; upper left: 5h lundi. mardi.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Cup; France; pen and black, red ink, graphite on cream tracing paper; 25.9 x 21.1cm (10 3/16 x 8 5/16in.); Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra; 1995-164-20

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