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Drawing, Design for the Embroidery of the Lower Front Part of an Overskirt of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Fabrique de Saint Ruf. It is dated ca. 1785 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is graphite, brush and gouache, 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

59.8 × 45.8 cm (23 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: CRA and Strasburg bend with hanging bunch of grapes over CRA

It is inscribed

Written bottom left: "po 1129 / S. R."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for the Embroidery of the Lower Front Part of an Overskirt of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"; Designed by Fabrique de Saint Ruf; France; graphite, brush and gouache, oxidized white on paper; 59.8 × 45.8 cm (23 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1920-36-23

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