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Drawing, Textile Design: Serpentin (Serpentine)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Josef Hoffmann and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1910–15 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.

Its dimensions are

4.4 × 20.3 cm (1 3/4 in. × 8 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: SERPENTIN

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Serpentin (Serpentine); Designed by Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, b. Moravia, 1870–1956); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 4.4 × 20.3 cm (1 3/4 in. × 8 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-252

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