Design for Tablet
date: label: Date
content: 1740–58
name: label: Artist
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The upper with the escutcheons for the coat of arms: above of the pope, below of a prelate. The other sketches include the architectural forms of the upper part of the frame, some figures of accounting. On verso, the beginning of a draft of a letter by the artist: “Carissimo amico, e Rue. Shmatissimo Verrà da Voi il mio Cognato Agostino, e vi porterà da mia parte 1(i) / quarto occhi di Gatta (jewels), desidererei in primo Luogo”…[etc.]
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: 1901-39-492
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 black ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.4 x 13.6 cm (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.)