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Drawing, Adoration of the Magi (Design for Stained Glass Window)

This is a Drawing. It was created by Francis Augustus Lathrop. It is dated 1898 and we acquired it in 1914. Its medium is brush and watercolor, pen and red ink, graphite on cream wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by H. A. Hammond Smith.

Its dimensions are

41.7 × 21.5 cm (16 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, near lower corner of each panel (Lugt 457c): Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and red ink, lower left, within window enframement: "COPYRIGHT 1898 BY FRANCIS LATHROP-NEW YORK"; in brush and pale yellow watercolor, in plaque below left panel: "IN MEMORIAM" [second line indistinct]; in plaque below right panel, "BORN ANO CCLVVI / DIED MDCCCLXXIII" [indistinct]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Adoration of the Magi (Design for Stained Glass Window); Francis Augustus Lathrop (American, 1849 - 1909); USA; brush and watercolor, pen and red ink, graphite on cream wove paper; 41.7 × 21.5 cm (16 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.); 1914-38-182

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