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Drawing, Street vendor

This is a Drawing. It was created by Robert Frederick Blum. It is dated 1880 and we acquired it in 1904. Its medium is graphite on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Henrietta Haller. It is credited Gift of Henrietta Haller.

Its dimensions are

16.6 × 10 cm (6 9/16 × 3 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black, lower left, (Lugt 457c): Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union

It is inscribed

Numbered in graphite, upper left corner: (327); Inscribed in graphite, center left (artist's hand): pink/ blue black/ burnt sienna/ gray; in graphite, lower right corner: 1880

Cite this object as

Drawing, Street vendor; Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857–1903); USA; graphite on wove paper; 16.6 × 10 cm (6 9/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Gift of Henrietta Haller; 1904-16-339

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