Object Details
- Designer
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. At bottom, a base with two kneeling angels supporting a cloth, on top of which stands a second base, on which seated griffons holding garlands support the shaft; between them the coat of arms of Pope Pius VII (1800-1823). The shaft consists of two pieces of fluted and foliated columns with a caryatid. Wings are slightly sketched in graphite at the caryatid's shoulders; a garland is wound around her above the socket with the candle.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1820
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-608
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, yellow and gray watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 58.5 × 29.3 cm (23 1/16 × 11 9/16 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_1938-88-608
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4983aecf5-f247-4007-b91e-9891b82d5946
