Object Details
- Designer
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for an andiron with a scheme similar to 1938-88-630. The entablature is supported by a baluster at left, in the manner of a tripod at right. Above it stands a vase with fire, from which smoke rises, at left, a caryatid carrying a similar vase, at right. Inscription above, scale below.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-631
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and yellow, brown watercolor, graphite on light blue paper
- Dimensions
- 31.1 × 21.9 cm (12 1/4 × 8 5/8 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_1938-88-631
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f43fc12b-6d66-4000-ac90-873830a183ab
