File:Drawing, Design for a Comb with "Flying Fish" Motif, 1904–06 (CH 18665401).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Comb with "Flying Fish" Motif, 1904–06   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Design for a Comb with "Flying Fish" Motif, 1904–06
Description
English: At upper left, design for a comb with salmon-colored fish leaping out of water, mouth open, jagged fin flaring, tail curving. Ocean spray spews up around fish and cascades down around its body to form the comb's teeth. To the right, two graphite sketches of a comb in profile. Above, at right, a small graphite drawing of an origami bird.
Date 1904–06
Medium graphite, brush and watercolor, white gouache on brownish translucent wove paper, possibly coated with resin
Dimensions 28.3 x 22.1 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1998-10-1
Credit line Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment and Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Funds
Inscriptions Verso, lower center: B F K Rives
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  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, lower right corner: 96 (encircled and underlined) and 381 (these are probably auction lot numbers)
  • Country: France
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