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Couple Playing Shuttlecock and Battledore, 1760/99. Graphite with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper.
Graphite with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper · 6.6 × 9.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Couple Playing Shuttlecock and Battledore
- Artist
- Paul Sandby English, 1731-1809
- Date
- 1760/99
- Medium
- Graphite with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 6.6 × 9.7 cm (2 5/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1731–1809
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.


