Sheet from book of sketches
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Top row: two drapery motifs; main row, at left: a seated and winged putto carries the left half of an escutcheon. At right: sketch of a different position of the putto. A flower vase and a bunch of fruits are sketched in the interval between the legs of the putti. Bottom row: a bird stands upon the shell of a snail crawling upon a leaf; a bunch of grapes; a leaf.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1625–50
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-2378
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.7 x 15.6 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-2378
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42af92103-2f47-4201-bcb9-97e065d68798
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