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Drawing, Homage to a Hero

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Firmin Perlin. It is dated 1772 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolors, white gouache, graphite on cream paper, lined and framed with paper stripe representing molding. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

  • Drawing, Triumphal Arch on an Ideal Piazza
  • pen and black ink, brush and blue, green and yellow watercolor on cardboard.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
  • 1938-88-4138

Its dimensions are

35 x 50.9 cm (13 3/4 x 20 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed with ink, bottom left: "f. Perlin / 1772".

Cite this object as

Drawing, Homage to a Hero; Architect: Firmin Perlin; France; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolors, white gouache, graphite on cream paper, lined and framed with paper stripe representing molding; 35 x 50.9 cm (13 3/4 x 20 1/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-251

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