Personification of America
Object Details
- Artist
- Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Bust length portrait of a woman, her left breast exposed, and carrying a spear in her right hand. In her hair is a jeweled fillet, trimmed with feathers, and in her right ear she wears a lozenge-shaped jeweled pendant earring. On her back she carries a quiver of arrows. Her head is inclined slightly to the left and turned directly toward the viewer.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
- before 1720
- Accession Number
- 1960-1-7-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- portraits
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.5 x 34 cm (17 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
- Frame H x W x D: 57.2 × 48.3 × 5.1 cm (22 1/2 in. × 19 in. × 2 in.)
- made in
- 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_1960-1-7-d
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq412b2165b-4575-40b4-92ba-15b661c7c8e1
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