Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle showing elevation. At the top, a tabernacle, showing the Annunciation at its door, stands in the center of a ledge and at the base of the retable. It has the shape of an aedicula with four embedded columns. On each side, there are two rows of seven ovoidal frames. A saint stands at the left. A putto, carrying an oivoidal medallion with a saint, sits at the right. A circular pediment is on top, flanked by two urns containing fire. Two putti sit upon it and support a crown. At the bottom is a scale and a plan of a retable in pavilion shape. On verso: pencil plans with scale in the opposite direction.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1770–1800
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and grey and black watercolors on laid paper.
- Dimensions
- H x W: 38.2 × 25.2 cm (15 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
