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Design for the Front of an Altar Mensa

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
With a projecting sepulchre, having the shape of a fluted bowl with a broken pediment with flower branches. The opening is framed by volutes and palm leaves. Below the plan. Framing lines at right and left.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Date
ca. 1770
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and grey watercolor, graphite on light brown paper
Dimensions
11.8 × 18.9 cm (4 5/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
Type
architecture, interiors
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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