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Drawing, Design for a Decorative Ewer

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Jean-Charles Delafosse. It is dated 1765 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled An Extravagant Ewer: Jean-Charles Delafosse’s Greek Style .

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

  • Drawing, View of Masquerade Ball
  • pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, black chalk on white laid....
  • Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
  • 1911-28-38

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Its dimensions are

24.2 x 15.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and brown ink at lower left: J. C. Delafosse

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Decorative Ewer; Architect: Jean-Charles Delafosse (French, 1734–1791); France; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on paper; 24.2 x 15.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-49

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