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Drawing, Textile Design: Florentina

This is a Drawing. It was made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1924 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on cream illustration board. 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.

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Its dimensions are

28.7 x 16 cm (11 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed in blue crayon, upper right: 103; in pen and black ink, lower right: DESSIN: "FLORENTINA" DESSIN: "PURPURNELKE"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Florentina; Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Austria; brush and gouache on cream illustration board; 28.7 x 16 cm (11 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-96

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