Object Details
- Description
- Design for a doorway with figures and dogs. Upon pediment the royal coat of arms. At left, allegorical figure of History or Fame, a winged female with a trumpet, tries to drive away Time, a woman with a skull-like face, who holds a mace in her left hand and supports the crown with her right hand. Garlands and drapery festoons hang on pediment and door frame. A grand curtain hangs down from the ceiling, falling behind the coat of arms. In doorway, a monk and a gentleman. Six dogs are on steps and street. On each side of the doorway, pairs of men. In graphite, one thin framing line.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
- Date
- 1763–64
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium
- Brush and gray wash, graphite; border and inscription in pen and brown ink on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 51.1 x 34.2cm (20 1/8 x 13 7/16in.)
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
