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Drawing, Design for Painted Decoration of Walls and Ceiling of a Room, ca. 1830

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1830 and we acquired it in 1940. Its medium is brush and gouache, watercolor on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims.

Its dimensions are

40 x 26.9 cm (15 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso, in graphite: Nro. 6 Zimmer / 1 Zimmer Vorn; 2

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Painted Decoration of Walls and Ceiling of a Room, ca. 1830; Austria; brush and gouache, watercolor on white wove paper; 40 x 26.9 cm (15 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims; 1940-120-5

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