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Drawing, Designs for Fifteen Side Chairs
This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1805 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Sarah and Eleanor pursued purchases from important European collections, including those owned by Giovanni Piancastelli and Jean Léon Decloux, to expand the museum’s holdings of works on paper. These rich collections represented not only the work of influential artists, but also depictions of decorative arts and architecture valuable to the study of design.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
Its dimensions are
34.5 x 30.1 cm (13 9/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: Vander Ley
Cite this object as
Drawing, Designs for Fifteen Side Chairs; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white laid paper; 34.5 x 30.1 cm (13 9/16 x 11 7/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-479
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
