Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Laterally are stripes projecting from the inner frame and the pilaster strips outside. The strips have together with an upper one the shape of a part of a frame. They show colored marble and are framed below laterally and above by moldings. Brackets support the entablature. A part of a frieze is between the brackets. In the center is an oblong in front of the entire upper part, below the upper moldings of the entablature. It is decorated with a displaced eagle standing upon two crossed torches, below is a festoon. Shadow, background, base line, scale as in 1938-88-8209. The plans are below. Below are a framing line and a stripe, traces of the first one are at the other edges.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1780–1800
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.9 × 29.5 cm (8 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
