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Drawing, Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1805–1815 and we acquired it in 1914. Its medium is brush and light blue, white gouache on glazed tracing 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

17.1 × 28.5 cm (6 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Written on top, in pencil and in ink: "No. 706."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border; France; brush and light blue, white gouache on glazed tracing paper; 17.1 × 28.5 cm (6 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1914-21-63

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