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1944

  • Work on this object ended.

1963

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Design for a Building

This is a Drawing. It is dated n.d. and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is graphite, pen and black ink, yellow color pencil on graph paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

45.4 × 57.9 cm (17 7/8 × 22 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

In graphite, lower right corner, in later hand: (?) Qal..s Do..hi (?) Mer..;/ in another hand: original Lutyens; at lower center, in Elaine Dee's hand: Delhi preliminary?; inscribed numbers throughout.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Building; England; graphite, pen and black ink, yellow color pencil on graph paper; 45.4 × 57.9 cm (17 7/8 × 22 13/16 in.); 1963-90-14

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