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Drawing, Design for a Silk Brocade

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1790 and we acquired it in 1924. Its medium is brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

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

Its dimensions are

39.8 x 58.8 cm (15 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, lower right: Museum for the Arts of Decoration/ Cooper Union (Lugt 457d); Watermark, left: Moi....

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, lower left: no. 29

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Silk Brocade; France; brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper; 39.8 x 58.8 cm (15 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1924-15-6

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