Elevation of a Dome, Design for a Mask, and Caricature
date: label: Date
content: 1725–50
name: label: Designer
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Elevation of dome at left. An entablature and a segment of an arch are at the bottom. Three mountains and a star stand upon the lower spirals of the volutes, which are obliquely dispersed beside the window of the tambour. A mound and a vane with a wing are on top. At top right, profile of a man with an enormous nose. At center right, foliated mask with opened mouth. The sheet had been previously used for architectural sketching. The left side of a door case, another one bottom right in opposite direction, and a zigzag line are recognizable.
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: 1938-88-505
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 17.4 × 23.7 cm (6 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)