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Drawing, Textile Design: Merkur (Mercury)
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Dagobert Peche and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1911–13 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache, watercolor on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.
Its dimensions are
15.9 x 13.5 cm (6 1/4 x 5 5/16 in. )
It has the following markings
Stamped in red ink, lower right: WIENER / WERK / STÄTTE
Cite this object as
Drawing, Textile Design: Merkur (Mercury); Designed by Dagobert Peche (Austrian, 1887–1923, active Vienna, 1911–1923); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Austria; brush and gouache, watercolor on paper; 15.9 x 13.5 cm (6 1/4 x 5 5/16 in. ); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-737
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus.
