Object Details
- Designer
- Friedrich von Schmidt, German, 1825 - 1891
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical format. At left, part of a ceiling showing four panels with sixteen sides, a panel shaped like an equal cross, and four halves and four quarters. The cross is decorated with a blossom rosette at center and four palmettes. Two rosettes are suggested for the other panels with four different colorings of the background. Various designs for leaf stems; garlands are suggested for the bands representing the panels. Top right: a band with an acanthus rinceau between two strips. Bottom right: an octagonal coffer with a rosette. Eight designs are shown for the framing band. Half of the designs have different colorings. Rosettes are suggested in the panels and shaped like eight-pointed stars between the octagonals.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
- ca. 1880
- Accession Number
- 1940-21-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 22.4 cm (12 3/8 x 8 13/16 in.)
- made in
- Austria
- place depicted
- Vienna, Austria
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1940-21-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a49bd130-5bfb-4a7d-a8aa-feff8a4e702d
