Object Details
- Designer
- Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical format. Form of a horseshoe, similar to 1940-21-22. The central panel has the same shape. In the center is a circular medallion with a standing lyre with two hanging laurel wreaths in front of two crossed trumpets and rays. It is surrounded by a circle formed by a Greek motif and farther away by another, for which two alternative suggestions are made: a cresting border with alternating blossoms and palmettes, and lyres connected by scrolls; two dancers, slightly skteched with pencil, are seemingly remnants of an earlier idea. Below are two triangles. This panel is framed by a band in the shape of a horseshoe; octagons alternate in it with lozenges. In the latter are figures of dancing girls. A moulding frames the central panel with the band. Outside is a corresponding frieze with, alternating: a swan supporting a garland or, at the base, two wreaths, and a standing trophy consisting of a candelabrum, two harps, branches, two wreaths. The part near the stage is divided into many oblongs and triangles. The details at the right side are not entirely executed.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
- ca. 1820
- Accession Number
- 1940-21-23
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- theater
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 33 × 27.7 cm (13 × 10 7/8 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_1940-21-23
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq495af789b-6f66-4d74-9ef7-8d35fa52a04e
