File:Drawing, Design for a Silk Brocade, ca. 1790 (CH 18304909).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Silk Brocade, ca. 1790   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Design for a Silk Brocade, ca. 1790
Description
English: Rising flower twigs form irregular ovoids and lozenges by being fastened together by branches upon which pairs of doves stand, by a laurel wreath with a card, and by flying putti, respectively. A landscape with two rabbits is shown in the ovoid, a landscape with a pheasant and a net in the great lozenge. In the smaller ones are birds and landscape motifs.
Date circa 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper
Dimensions 39.8 x 58.8 cm (15 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1924-15-6
Credit line Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
Inscriptions Stamped in black ink, lower right: Museum for the Arts of Decoration/ Cooper Union (Lugt 457d); Watermark, left: Moi....
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  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in black ink, lower left: no. 29
  • Country: France
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