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Drawing, Design for an Inkstand

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1815 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and sepia ink on light gray-blue paper. 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

20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Inkstand; Italy; pen and sepia ink on light gray-blue paper; 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-678

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