Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie]

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Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie]

This is a Drawing. We acquired it in 2012. Its medium is brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Day series in a post titled Design for a Smoking Room.

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Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie]; France; brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on wove paper; 2012-5-2

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Ek14/
Accession Number 2012-5-2
Object ID 18794671