Sketch of an Angel
Object Details
- Artist
- Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Above, in pencil, half-length group of the Virgin and Child, enclosed in frame. Before it, a shouting angel, in a cloud, flies toward right. A large winged angel, in ink, in foreground; city view, in pencil, in background, right.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1825-1850
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-7359
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite, pen and ink, brush and bistre on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.8 × 19.5 cm (10 9/16 × 7 11/16 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_1938-88-7359
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4820e5d38-5308-4e72-96f9-3054dc026cc2
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