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Sheet of Studies [recto and verso]

John Flaxman

National Gallery of Art

The image includes pencil sketches of decorative cups and a half-circle motif. The largest drawing is a detailed design of a goblet-like vessel with ornate patterns on the stem and body. The color palette is grayscale due to the pencil medium on cream-colored paper. Two smaller sketches of similar cups are in the top left, and a semi-circular ornamental design is at the bottom. Scale measurements are next to the large cup on the right, and additional details are on a narrow strip along the right edge of the paper.

Artwork Details

Date
in or after 1819
Medium
graphite//compositionally unrelated ink and wash verso
Dimensions
4281 × 3474 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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