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Drawing, Design for a Silk Brocade

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1775–1790 and we acquired it in 1909. Its medium is graphite, brush and gouache, brush and oxidized white on 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

47.7 × 37.5 cm (18 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: large bird cage with two birds and a bunch of grapes (?) at the point from which a spear rises with B (?)

It is inscribed

On verso in red crayon: "48"; on verso, in ink: "Divers Matérieaux."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Silk Brocade; graphite, brush and gouache, brush and oxidized white on paper; 47.7 × 37.5 cm (18 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1909-13-132-a

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