File:Drawing, Design for a Comb, ca. 1810 (CH 18549967).jpg
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English: Drawing, Design for a Comb, ca. 1810
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English: Drawing, Design for a Comb, ca. 1810 |
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English: Horizontal rectangle. Design for the cresting of a hair comb intended to be executed in gilded metal with diamonds and three engraved gems. In the center, an engraved gem with the silhouette of an athlete, beside two similar gems with silhouettes of classic busts. Comb tines sketched in graphite below. |
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| Date | circa 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white laid paper, laid down | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 8.9 × 10.8 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design |
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1938-88-700 |
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| Credit line | Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions | Watermark: the greater part of an escutcheon, with above two torches behind it; in the dexter part a lily [?] above a cross and [?] in the sinister part below three stars and [?] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | Catalog Photo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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