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Three faint pencil or crayon sketches of folded drapery or hair on a lavender-gray sheet of paper.

Study for Fortune: Drapery Sketches by Elihu Vedder

Three faint sketched forms in pencil or crayon sit on a lavender-gray sheet: a long, folded mound of drapery at left and two smaller shapes at right. Soft shading suggests fabric or hair, with much of the paper left blank.

Artist
Elihu Vedder
Date
ca. 1899
Medium
Pastel crayon on paper
Source
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size
2560 × 1961 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1904).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum