Object Details
- Designer
- Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. The business goes on in front of the storeroom, which is in the basement at the corner of a house. A man is busy cutting a melon, another raises two halves and shouts. A boy carries two trays with pieces of melons. Children eat or await their shares. A boy tries the ripeness of a melon, a child searches among the peels. A boy is shown eating in the left corner. Framing line. The signature is in the lower right corner: "Gatta f. 1828."
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- 1828
- Accession Number
- 1931-73-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and yellow, red, blue, green, brown, gray water colors on wove paper.
- Dimensions
- 19.6 × 26 cm (7 11/16 × 10 1/4 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_1931-73-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq481f908a8-5c4a-42a6-990f-a8e911745b41
