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Drawing, Design for a Tapestry: Animals Watching a Sleeping Lion

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and ink on pricked 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

46.6 × 46.5 cm (18 3/8 × 18 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso: The stamp of J. Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Tapestry: Animals Watching a Sleeping Lion; France; pen and ink on pricked paper; 46.6 × 46.5 cm (18 3/8 × 18 5/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-64-92

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