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Drawing, Design for a Book Cover, Foundations of National Power

This is a Drawing. It was created by Edward McKnight Kauffer and written by Margaret Sprout and designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and published by Princeton University Press. It is dated 1945 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is graphite brush and gouache on off-white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer. It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.

Its dimensions are

33.7 × 28 cm (13 1/4 × 11 in.)

It is inscribed

In pen and black ink at lower right: Rough by / E. McKnight Kauffer; in graphite, on verso: 1945

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Book Cover, Foundations of National Power; Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Written by Margaret Sprout; Published by Princeton University Press; USA; graphite brush and gouache on off-white paper; 33.7 × 28 cm (13 1/4 × 11 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-1204

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