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Freer Cottage: Sketch of cottage, front elevation and 1st and 2nd floor plans

Freer Cottage: Sketch of cottage, front elevation and 1st and 2nd floor plans, between 1858 and 1944

  • Wilson Eyre, Jr., American, 1858-1944

Wash over pencil on paper

  • Overall: 18 × 23 inches (45.7 × 58.4 cm)

Gift of Louisa Eyre

45.122.1

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Signed and inscribed, lower right: Wilson Eyre Jr | Architect, Phila.

Inscribed, upper right center: Sketch | of | Cottage for Miss Freer | at Kingston, NY Inscribed, throughout plans: [notations of room names and size]

1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Wilson Eyre, Jr., Freer Cottage: Sketch of cottage, front elevation and 1st and 2nd floor plans, between 1858 and 1944, wash over pencil on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Louisa Eyre, 45.122.1.

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