Design for an Altar Cross
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. A variation of the design 1938-88-665. Spear and sponge staffs are crossed in front of a cross, their bottom and top parts being held by pairs of flying angels. The upper ones hold with their bare hands a wreath on the cross. Circles are at the ends of the other parts of the cross. The cock is shown in the wreath on top, hammer and tongs in the circle at left, the nails at right, a hand at the bottom, the fetters in the center. Two flying angels support the cross arm.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-666
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 33 × 20.1 cm (13 in. × 7 15/16 in.)