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Drawing, Alternate Design for Memorial Window, Beecher Memorial Church, Brooklyn, NY

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Alice Cordelia Morse. It is dated 1889–90 and we acquired it in 2009. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on off-white wove paper, mounted to paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Alice C. Morse.

Its dimensions are

Image: 17.2 x 6.8 cm (6 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.) Sheet: 20.6 x 8.1 cm (8 1/8 x 3 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso, stamped in brown ink: (rectangular banner with notched corners) Cooper Union / Museum / New York.

It is inscribed

Verso, in pen and black ink, upper half of mount: A. C. Morse / 111 S 9 St / Brooklyn

Cite this object as

Drawing, Alternate Design for Memorial Window, Beecher Memorial Church, Brooklyn, NY; Designed by Alice Cordelia Morse (American, 1863–1961); USA; brush and watercolor, graphite on off-white wove paper, mounted to paperboard; Image: 17.2 x 6.8 cm (6 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.) Sheet: 20.6 x 8.1 cm (8 1/8 x 3 3/16 in.); Gift of Alice C. Morse; 2009-6-10

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