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Drawing, Design for a Brooch

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1790 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and red, gray watercolor on light 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

9.1 × 10.7 cm (3 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, verso, bottom: Diamanti circa 350 / Brillanti circa 1000

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Brooch; Italy; pen and black ink, brush and red, gray watercolor on light blue paper; 9.1 × 10.7 cm (3 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-897

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