Design for a Ceiling with Decoration Related to Virgil's Sixth Canto
Object type: Drawing Ornament & Architecture
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Felice Giani
Artist bio: Italian, San Sebastiano Curone, near Alessandria 1758–1823 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1758–1823
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and yellow, pink, blue and green wash over traces of leadpoint; vertical line in leadpoint through the center to create the symmetry of the drawing and to other vertical lines parallels to the one on the center
Dimensions: 8 x 10 5/16 in. (20.3 x 26.2 cm) irregular borders
Classification: Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession year: 1952
Tags: Architecture|Ceilings