Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. The supporting female figures that appear in 1938-88-653 stand upon parts of fluted columns as pedestals. They carry in their raised hands, which face each other, trumpets to which rinceaux are fastened unilaterally. Three burning candles are on each stick. The girl at left carries in her lowered right hand a basket, the other in her left hand a pitcher. Framing line. Verso: a slight graphite sketch of 1938-88-5810, with shorter candles.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
- Date
- ca. 1820
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 33 × 22.1 cm (13 in. × 8 11/16 in.)
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
