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Drawing, Design for an Engraved Illustration: The Fountain of Love

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1765 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is black and white chalk, graphite on 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

19.6 × 14.3 cm (7 11/16 × 5 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: Churchill 321; Verso: the J. Peoli mark.

It is signed

Signed below at left: "Schenau inv/1765."

It is inscribed

The entablature bears an inscription "FONTAINE DE ONUE (?)."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Engraved Illustration: The Fountain of Love; Germany; black and white chalk, graphite on paper; 19.6 × 14.3 cm (7 11/16 × 5 5/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-64-100

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