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Drawing, Textile Design: Eiland (Isle)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Felice Rix-Ueno and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1923 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.

Its dimensions are

5.1 × 14.6 cm (2 in. × 5 3/4 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.6 cm (12 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in red ink, lower right: WIENER / WERK / STÄTTE

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, bottom center: DESSIN: "EILAND"; in blue crayon, upper right: 126

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Eiland (Isle); Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno (Austrian, 1893–1967, active Japan 1935–1967); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 5.1 × 14.6 cm (2 in. × 5 3/4 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.6 cm (12 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-1049

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