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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Print, Interlace Pattern with White Medallion
woodcut on off-white laid paper.
1944-37-1-b

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Bandbox And Lid, Engine Company No. 13, 1831–44
block printed on handmade paper, pasteboard support.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
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Monochrome tapestry square with an all-over design of twists and knots in deep purple.

Square (Egypt), 3rd–4th century
warp: s-spun linen; wefts: s-spun linen, s-spun wool.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-116

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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