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Drawing, Textile Design: Prolog (Prologue)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Maria Likarz Strauss and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1922 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

5.7 x 21.5 cm (2 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.), irregular Mat: 32.5 x 46 cm (12 13/16 x 18 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in red ink, lower right: WIENER / WERK / STÄTTE

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower right: Dessin "Prolog"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Prolog (Prologue); Designed by Maria Likarz Strauss (Austrian, 1893–1971); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Austria; brush and gouache on paper; 5.7 x 21.5 cm (2 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.), irregular Mat: 32.5 x 46 cm (12 13/16 x 18 1/8 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-358

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