Design for an Elaborate Cornice with a Cartouche and Figures Supporting a Ceiling, with Two Arched Openings.
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1700–1780
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of leadpoint or graphite. Scales at bottom in pen and brown ink. Constructions lines in stylus-incised (rule and compass)
Dimensions: 11 5/8 x 18 3/16 in. (29.5 x 46.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965
Accession year: 1965
Tags: Architecture|Ceilings