Etching with aquatint: Architecture
date: label: Date
content: 1797
name: label: Artist
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal composition with a personification of architecture shown in profile, looking to the right at a winged male writing on a monument: "Ratiocinatio/Et Fabrica" "An./MDCCXCVII." Attributes of architecture and a globe are on the ground at left and right. Bottom center: "Felix Giani inv. et sculp." Four framing lines.
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: 1901-39-2683
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Hand-colored etching with aquatint on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22.8 × 30 cm (9 in. × 11 13/16 in.)