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Drawing, Textile Design: Serpentin (Serpentine)
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Josef Hoffmann and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1910–15 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 × 5.7 cm (8 in. × 2 1/4 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: SERPENTIN
Cite this object as
Drawing, Textile Design: Serpentin (Serpentine); Designed by Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, b. Moravia, 1870–1956); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 20.3 × 5.7 cm (8 in. × 2 1/4 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-256
