Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle with sixteen designs for consoles. All but one of the sketches with wash. The consoles are protruding from a frieze. Two are with masks, most with escutcheons, one with a tablet, three with motifs of architectural ornament. Verso: A tree, and in front of it the upper part of a column standing obliquely above a base, with a plummet hanging from its top. Above, a sketch probably showing how to measure the angle of the oblique angle and in graphite, an upright oblong drawn into the oblique column.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
- Date
- 1720–30
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; verso: pen and ink, graphite
- Dimensions
- H x W: 27.6 × 20.4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
