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1927

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1988

  • We acquired this object.

2025

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Drawing, Textile Design: Morgentau (Morning Dew), 1927

This is a Drawing. It was made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1927 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

20.3 × 48.3 cm (8 × 19 in.) Mat: 46 × 29.8 cm (18 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in red ink, verso: DIESER ENTWURF IST GEISTIGES EIGENTUM DER WIENER WERKSTÄTTE GES [...] IN WIEN UND STEHT UNTER DEM SCHUTZ DES URHEBERRECHTES.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, recto: MORGENTAU; in pen and black ink (vertically), upper right: Dessin: Morgentau no.arch. 13276 / Entwurf: Rix; in graphite upper right: Col. 1; in blue crayon, upper right: 322

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Morgentau (Morning Dew), 1927; Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 20.3 × 48.3 cm (8 × 19 in.) Mat: 46 × 29.8 cm (18 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-1091

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