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1920

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2025

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Drawing, Embroidery Design: Top Pa, ca. 1785

This is a Drawing. It was created by Mademoiselle Montalent and manufactured by Fabrique de Saint Ruf. It is dated ca. 1785 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is gouache over graphite on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

29.6 x 14.1 cm (11 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.) matted with -75 Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)

It has the following markings

Marks: FIN DE IOHANNOT DANNONAY 1781

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink at upper right: po 1438

Cite this object as

Drawing, Embroidery Design: Top Pa, ca. 1785; Mademoiselle Montalent; Manufactured by Fabrique de Saint Ruf; France; gouache over graphite on white laid paper; 29.6 x 14.1 cm (11 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.) matted with -75 Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1920-36-317

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