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1913

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1922

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1988

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Drawing, Textile Design: Wetterleuchten (Sheet Lightning)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Felice Rix-Ueno and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1913–22 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

25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.) Mat: 31.6 × 45.1 cm (12 7/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in red ink, lower right: WIENER / WERK / STATTE

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, lower right: Dessin: "Wetterleuchten"; in blue crayon, upper right: 29

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Wetterleuchten (Sheet Lightning); Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno (Austrian, 1893–1967, active Japan 1935–1967); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Austria; brush and gouache on paper; 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.) Mat: 31.6 × 45.1 cm (12 7/16 × 17 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-866

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