Object Details
- Designer
- Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical format design for a painted ceiling. Form of a horseshoe, with a base line. Inscribed is an oval, framed by mouldings. The scheme is that of an opening bordered by an attic, the central part of a blossom the eight leaves of which are outlined by garlands. In each panel is a figure of a dancing girl, supported by a pedestal in the shape of a blossom calix. Below those are hexagons with a central circular medallion with a winged putto. The hexagons are connected by festoons, above which are trophies. Part of the entablature below, with the dial of the clock.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
- ca. 1830
- Accession Number
- 1940-21-22
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- theater
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and gray-brown ink, brush and watercolor, gold paint, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.7 × 28.7 cm (14 1/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Venice, 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_1940-21-22
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45e2467d4-2487-43ba-b658-eb885a90f46b
