Design for Spandral Decoration
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1825
name: label: Attributed to
content: Ciro Ferri, Italian, 1634 - 1689
label: Attributed to
content: Lazzaro Baldi, Italian, ca. 1624 – 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: top left and right, center left: spandrels showing Abraham raising or brandishing the knife and Isaac kneeling. The representation at top right which showed the coming of the angel and the head of the ram was obliterated by over painting with sepia. Bottom center, right: An indistinct nude figure in a spandrel. Bottom center, left, in opposite directions: Noah holding a small ark from which a dove flies. Bottom center: the scale.
label: Description
content: Verso: a standing man in classical armor talks to what seems to be an angel. The man is shown twice: the other figure, in the three poses.
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: 1938-88-6449
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: Brush and sepia wash, pen and brown ink, graphie, white gouache on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 18.4 x 33.1 cm (7 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.)