Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- At top, a right hand shown from the inside. At center, two standing putti hold an escutcheon. At the bottom, a left hand, pending, shown from the back and from the thumb. On verso: at top, a relief with four men busied with the cross. A group of three men is at the right and a man and a ride are at the left. At the bottom, a bear shown in profile turned toward the left.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1580-1590
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Red chalk, pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor wash. On verso: Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor wash on laid paper.
- Dimensions
- H x W: 21.6 × 14.4 cm (8 1/2 × 5 11/16 in.)
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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