Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. On left, two overdoors. On the top frame sits an entablature with brackets, two cornices of a pediment with suspended festoons. A mask is in the center and an escutcheon is at the very top. At the bottom left door frame,there is an entablature with a scrollwork pediment and a cherub on top. At the bottom right, three-quarter profile of a woman bust portrait whose head is covered with a bonnet. On verso: three quare profile of a young man, a profile of a woman's head is turned toward him.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1580
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and grey watercolor washes, blotted red crayon, lead pencil on laid paper. On verso: red crayon on laid paper.
- Dimensions
- H x W: 21.7 × 14 cm (8 9/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
