Object Details
- Probably
- Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for an oil-burning lamp. Below is a moulded base. The figure of a menad is shown in three-quarter profile dancing upon a sphere and turned toward left. Her right hand holds her skirt, her left hand the thyrsus to which the lamp is fastened.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- mid- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-667
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.8 × 22.2 cm (14 7/8 × 8 3/4 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_1938-88-667
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ef8d121f-04f5-41e1-b5d6-85fc06461966
