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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Gémeaux (Gemini) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Jean Charles Develly and company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated 1824 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of James Amster.
Its dimensions are
19 x 14.6 cm (7 7/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown/black ink over graphite, on support above image: Les Gémeaux (Gemini); below image: tu ne mas pas écrit ça... (You did not write me that..); in graphite, upper right corner of mount: 5
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Gémeaux (Gemini) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service; Company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France); Designed by Jean Charles Develly (French, 1783 - 1849); France; pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink; 19 x 14.6 cm (7 7/16 x 5 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of James Amster; 1989-13-39
