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Drawing, Design for Stained Glass Window
This is a Drawing. It was made for (as the client) Graham Somervell, Esq., Hamilton's Farm and Sorn Castle, Scotland, Sir Andrew Orr, Lord Provost of Glasgow and W. Cowper. It is dated ca. 1860 and we acquired it in 1948. Its medium is brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Jacques Seligmann.
Its dimensions are
53 × 33.7 cm (20 7/8 × 13 1/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and ink, lower right: Accepted with central subject, the other two to be / omitted – / Graham Somervell / of Hamilton's Farm; lower left: Approved for the Com [?]u Andrew Orr. / approved W Cowper; upper center: 27; in graphite, upper right: [?]
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Stained Glass Window; Client: Graham Somervell (Scottish, b. ca. 1819), Sir Andrew Orr (Scottish, 1801–1872), W. Cowper; brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper; 53 × 33.7 cm (20 7/8 × 13 1/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Jacques Seligmann; 1948-24-22
