Project for the “Machine” for the Exposition of the Monstrance
date: label: Date
content: 1725–1775
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. The “stage” has the general form of a chapel, with twisted columns and curtain drawn aside. Inside a baldachino with two angels on top, support a scroll with REX REGVM. Upon clouds rests a throne, upon whose seat a crown lying upon crossed swords. Clouds with angels and cherubim surround it, referring the host in the monstrance standing above a bird with spread wings on top of the clouds.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-2506
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil, pen, ink, paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 45.8 × 34 cm (18 1/16 × 13 3/8 in.)