Classical and Pseudo-Classical Architectural Details
Object Details
- Designer
- Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. At top, shown from the side, a man with the head of a dolphin. At right, a caryatid, seen from the side. Two Corinthian capitals from the monument of Lysicrates and the Tower of the Winds in Athens. Below, at left is a cresting border with palmettes; at right, the upper part of a mausoleum with a sculpture of a seated woman.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1840
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-508
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and bistre, gray watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 20.1 × 24.6 cm (7 15/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-508
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d243a0fc-0b20-49d0-b08d-34fe1ca79f3b
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