Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The inner frame has a cresting; in the center is a triangle with a vase crowned with flames, beside acroteria. The vase is encircled by a serpent, in the panel of the outer frame. Below, is a variation of the motif in 1938-88-1906; two trees, laterally. Dark background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Architect
- Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- ca. 1796
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.1 x 12.6 cm (8 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
