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Drawing, Project for the Decoration of an Oblong Panel

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1840 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pencil, pen and ink, white chalk on brown paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

  • Border (USA)
  • machine-printed.
  • Gift of Scalamandre.
  • 1990-84-98

Our curators have highlighted 7 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Drawing, Fountain with Two Eagles
  • pen and brown ink, brown wash support: white laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
  • 1938-88-3719
  • Album Page, A Tomb Monument
  • pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes on laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
  • 1960-102-2
  • Dado (France)
  • block-printed paper.
  • Gift of Josephine Howell.
  • 1972-42-183

Its dimensions are

H x W: 18.3 × 9.6 cm (7 3/16 × 3 3/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Project for the Decoration of an Oblong Panel; Italy; pencil, pen and ink, white chalk on brown paper; H x W: 18.3 × 9.6 cm (7 3/16 × 3 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-1287

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