Design for an Illusionistic Wall Decoration, with a King Accompanied by Soliders
date: label: Date
content: 1703
name: label: Designer
content: Gaetano Lazzara, Italian, d. ca. 1730
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Left half of an architectural interior is shown. View through a kind of proscenium with a caryatid in an apse. It has a basement with window grates. The main floor has the shape of an arcade with balconies with screens. Three steps lead into the center to a platform upon which twisted columns, three in a row, support an arch. Shown is "Ahasverus," accompanied by soldiers, stretching out his arms towards "Esther," kneeling. The mace is in his right hand. Framing line, below, at left. Below is the scale: "Canna."
place: label: made in
content: Palermo, Sicily, 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: 1938-88-3348
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 38.6 x 23.2 cm (15 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)