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Drawing, Earthenware Jar

This is a Drawing. It was created by Robert Frederick Blum. It is dated 1877 and we acquired it in 1904. Its medium is graphite on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Henrietta Haller. It is credited Gift of Henrietta Haller.

Its dimensions are

20.7 × 11.8 cm (8 1/8 × 4 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black, lower center, (Lugt 457c): Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left corner: (86); Inscribed in graphite, upper right (artist's hand): General tone yellowish/ partly glazed/ a circle of black/ around the rim and/ neck/ Size about/ 8 in--; Inscribed in graphite, lower right corner: 1877

Cite this object as

Drawing, Earthenware Jar; Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857–1903); USA; graphite on wove paper; 20.7 × 11.8 cm (8 1/8 × 4 5/8 in.); Gift of Henrietta Haller; 1904-16-53-b

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