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Drawing, Button Design: Snowflake Miracle

This is a Drawing. We acquired it in 2001. Its medium is pen and blue ink, graphite, brush and brown watercolor on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was bequest of Marion Weeber Welsh. It is credited Bequest of Marion Weeber Welsh.

Its dimensions are

29.8 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in. )

It is signed

In graphite, lower right: Weeber

It is inscribed

In graphite, at top: PHOTOS - SNOWFLAKE MIRACLE; at upper right, ICELAND MAGIC; at lower right quadrant, SUGGEST (underlined)/ 1 CRYSTAL BUTTON/SNOWFLAKE STAMPED ON UNDERSIDE/COLOR UNDERSIDE/ 2 WHITE BUTTON, DYED, THEN CARVED/ IN SNOWFLAKE PATTERN/ 3 STERLING SILVER SNOWFLAKE MOUNTED ON COLOR BUTTON

Cite this object as

Drawing, Button Design: Snowflake Miracle; pen and blue ink, graphite, brush and brown watercolor on laid paper; 29.8 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in. ); Bequest of Marion Weeber Welsh; 2006-2-136

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