Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, 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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-8211
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.9 × 29.5 cm (8 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.)