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Drawing, Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Karl Josef Koebel. It is dated 1815 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, ruled border in pen and black ink on white wove paper laid down on blue paper mounted on cardboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
Its dimensions are
H x W: 12.8 × 19.8 cm (5 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.) H x W (Mount): 21 × 30.3 cm (8 1/4 × 11 15/16 in.) H x W (Mat): 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.)
It is signed
Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: C. Koebel / 1815
Cite this object as
Drawing, Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple; Designed by Karl Josef Koebel (German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850); Germany; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, ruled border in pen and black ink on white wove paper laid down on blue paper mounted on cardboard; H x W: 12.8 × 19.8 cm (5 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.) H x W (Mount): 21 × 30.3 cm (8 1/4 × 11 15/16 in.) H x W (Mat): 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-422
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
