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Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum.

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1855 and we acquired it in 1953. Its medium is pencil, ink, watercolor, tempera colors on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 43.7 x 28.1 cm (17 3/16 x 11 1/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum.; France; pencil, ink, watercolor, tempera colors on tracing paper; Sheet: 43.7 x 28.1 cm (17 3/16 x 11 1/16 in.); Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund; 1953-206-6

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