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Drawing, Decorative panel for July Festival

This is a Drawing. It was created by Félix-Jacques Duban. It is dated 1835 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is watercolor, gouache, black ink, wash, graphite on tan paper mounted on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Emily and Jerry Spiegel, gift of Phyllis Dearborn Massar and from General Purchase Fund.

Its dimensions are

sheet: 2 11/16 x 6 7/8 inches (6.7 x 17.5 cm) mount: 17 3/8 x 11 5/16 inches (44.1 x 28.7 cm)

It is inscribed

(by a later hand) upper center margin of mount in graphite: Fêtes de Juillet 1835; lower center margin: Juillet 1835.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Decorative panel for July Festival; Félix-Jacques Duban (French, 1798 - 1870); France; watercolor, gouache, black ink, wash, graphite on tan paper mounted on off-white laid paper; sheet: 2 11/16 x 6 7/8 inches (6.7 x 17.5 cm) mount: 17 3/8 x 11 5/16 inches (44.1 x 28.7 cm) ; Museum purchase through gift of Emily and Jerry Spiegel, gift of Phyllis Dearborn Massar and from General Purchase Fund; 1991-17-13

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

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