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Drawing, Cartoon for Wallpaper and Textile: Peacock

This is a Drawing. It was manufactured by Piazza Prints Inc.. It is dated 1960 and we acquired it in 1967. Its medium is brush and gouache, bronze paint, graphite on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

61.0 x 47.5 cm (24 x 18 11/16 in. )

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left: Should we introduce some green mixed/ with the bronze feathers like the fan/ Don't see any white around eye in the fan

Cite this object as

Drawing, Cartoon for Wallpaper and Textile: Peacock; Manufactured by Piazza Prints Inc. (United States); USA; brush and gouache, bronze paint, graphite on white wove paper; 61.0 x 47.5 cm (24 x 18 11/16 in. ); 1967-97-24-c

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