File:Drawing, Design for a Sedan Chair, ca. 1775 (CH 18105079).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Sedan Chair, ca. 1775   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Design for a Sedan Chair, ca. 1775
Description
English: Shown from the right rear corner with two bars. On top is a crown of an earl. From the upper corners hang tassels, at those in the height of the upper edge of the lower panels are ram heads. All the panels are decorated above with festoons. In the upper one of the back, below, are two conjoined coats of arms framed by garlands; right a bend sinister; left a Maltese cross. The window is divided into four panes by curved branches. Decoration of the bar and erasure similar to 1900-1-15. Written in the upper left corner with pencil: "Lady AEB".
Date circa 1775
date QS:P571,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium pen and black ink, brush and gray, brown, red, yellow and blue watercolor over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions 24.6 x 41.8 cm (9 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.) [irreg.]
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
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Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1900-1-16
Credit line Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander
Inscriptions Watermark: Strasburg Lily below GR Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration stamp [Lugt 457 c]
Notes Period: Rococo
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