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Drawing, Design for a Wallpaper Frieze

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1810 and we acquired it in 1909. Its medium is graphite, brush and paint 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

23.4 × 28.5 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Written with ink left bottom corner: "no / 4."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Wallpaper Frieze; graphite, brush and paint on paper; 23.4 × 28.5 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1909-13-60

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