Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Three steps lead to the mensa, equal in width with the top step. In the central panel is a relief of the four Evangelists with their symbols, and the Dove of the Holy Spirit. Two pilaster strips decorated with parts of a candelabrum recede beside the panel. More panels are receding, at left with St. Peter, at right with St. Paul. Projecting outside are pilaster strips with candelabra. The background is colored grey. Two framing lines. Below is an oblong, framed as a moulding by a colored stripe, and by lines, indicating the scale: "Scala di Palmi... Dieci romani." The signature is written, in bistre, in the moulding below, at right: "C. P. Posi."
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776
- Date
- ca. 1763
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and grey watercolor, bistre, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.7 × 47.8 cm (10 7/8 × 18 13/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
