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Drawing, Wallpaper Design

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1835–50 and we acquired it in 1940. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims.

Its dimensions are

33.2 x 24.5 cm (13 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Lower margin, in graphite: NTL N2 Mittere; in ink, upper left: 2tenZ [?] F. Rühl [?]; lower left: W; in graphite, upper right: GW

Cite this object as

Drawing, Wallpaper Design; Austria; brush and gouache, graphite on white paper; 33.2 x 24.5 cm (13 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims; 1940-120-51

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