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Drawing, Design for a Wallpaper or Textile

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1815–1840 and we acquired it in 1909. Its medium is brush and purple gouache on thick white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

59.8 × 54 cm (23 9/16 × 21 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

On verso, in ink: presentation note "Presented by / The Misses Hewitt / January, 1909"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Wallpaper or Textile; brush and purple gouache on thick white laid paper; 59.8 × 54 cm (23 9/16 × 21 1/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1909-13-121

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