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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Vierge (The Virgin) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
This is a drawing. It was designed by Jean Charles Develly and manufactured by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated 1824 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is pen and brown/black ink, brush and brown/black wash, pink/tan watercolor, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of James Amster.
Its dimensions are
18.5 x 14.7 cm (7 1/4 x 6 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, over graphite, on support above image: La Vierge; below image: il serait de l'age du tien.../ ha le pauvre mari-! /... (he's old enough for an affair... / ha the poor husband-! /...; in graphite, upper right corner of mount: 8
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Vierge (The Virgin) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service; Designed by Jean Charles Develly (French, 1783 - 1849); Manufactured by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France); France; pen and brown/black ink, brush and brown/black wash, pink/tan watercolor, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink; 18.5 x 14.7 cm (7 1/4 x 6 in.); Museum purchase through gift of James Amster; 1989-13-43
