Object Details
- Designer
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for an altar lamp hung from three chains, starting from calyces upon the heads of birds. Two waved garlands of leaves are intertwined at the body. The birds stand between the garlands, and a mask is at the front. Three flames burn at lamp's opening.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1825
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-622
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.3 x 14.9 cm (10 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.)
- made in
- Rome, 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_1938-88-622
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq420705bb0-b122-4be0-8e03-6ecd46799e2e
