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Drawing, Design for a Base

This is a Drawing. We acquired it in 1995. Its medium is pen and yellow ink, graphite on cream tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra.

Its dimensions are

20.5 x 29.9 cm (8 1/16 x 11 3/4 inches)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left corner: X; upper right: SOCLE/MARBRE/BLANC PUR [underlined several times]; in pen and yellow ink, center right: CERCLE/VERMEIL

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Base; France; pen and yellow ink, graphite on cream tracing paper; 20.5 x 29.9 cm (8 1/16 x 11 3/4 inches); Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra; 1995-164-4

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