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Drawing, Designs for Two Earrings

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1800 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and red, gray watercolor on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

16.4 × 7.8 cm (6 7/16 × 3 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, upper left: No 4; vertically, center left: circa 600; vertically, lower right: circa 1000

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for Two Earrings; Italy; pen and black ink, brush and red, gray watercolor on paper; 16.4 × 7.8 cm (6 7/16 × 3 1/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-854

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