Design for a Chimneypiece
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Laterally are pilasters with huge brackets as capitals. They show panels with garlands hanging in the upper parts. The inner frame is projecting in its upper part; rosettes are those inside. In the center above it is an ovoidal medallion, from which festoons hang in the lateral panels. Above are the cornices of an entablature. At right is the elevation shown in profile. Shadow, coloring, plans, scale as ion 1938-88-8218. Framing line and stripe.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1780–1800
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-8219
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.5 × 46.1 cm (11 1/4 × 18 1/8 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_1938-88-8219
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e3657eb7-d776-4d16-bbb1-6e057cd0cb3d
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