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Drawing, Design for an Earring

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1825–50 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

10.4 × 6 cm (4 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, upper left: 500

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Earring; Italy; pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; 10.4 × 6 cm (4 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-748

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Duro Olowu Selects.

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