FOUR SKETCHES OF A YOUNG WOMAN
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Four Sketches of a Young Woman

ca. 1880

Medium
Brush and black ink on paper
Classification
Figures (representations)
Dimensions
47.8 × 35.4 cm (18 13/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Culture
Italy
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Credit line
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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About this work

Vertical rectangle. Four sketches of a young woman wearing a robe, shown from the front, sitting and holding an open book toward the spectator. At least one of the pages of the book contains illustrations, visible in the sketch at left.