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Drawing, Textile Design: Menuett (Minuet)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Reni Schaschl-Schuster and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated designed 1920–21 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite 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

20.5 x 6.5 cm (8 1/16 x 2 9/16 in. )

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, in blue crayon, upper right: 330

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Menuett (Minuet); Designed by Reni Schaschl-Schuster (Austrian, 1895 - 1979); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache, graphite on paper; 20.5 x 6.5 cm (8 1/16 x 2 9/16 in. ); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-1138

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