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Design for Vase with Eagles
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Pen and brown ink brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk. A vertical line in leadpoint through the center to create the symmetry of the drawing
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1952
Title: Design for Vase with Eagles
Description:
Pen and brown ink brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk.
A vertical line in leadpoint through the center to create the symmetry of the drawing.
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