Design for Necklace with Brazilian Beetles
Unknown Maker
Nine beads are part of chain, from which hang alternately five large and four small beetles. Chains with beads hang as festoons.
c. 1900
Graphite, brush and watercolor, white heightening on tracing paper
1910-44-4
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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