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Drawing, Textile Design: Novelle, 1923

This is a Drawing. It was made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1923 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

20.3 × 2.5 cm (8 × 1 in.) Mat: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: NOVELLE

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Novelle, 1923; Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 20.3 × 2.5 cm (8 × 1 in.) Mat: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-399

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