Design for Left Half of Door Frame
date: label: Date
content: 1700–30
name: label: Designer
content: A. Quadrío, Italian, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical format design for the left half of a door frame. An arch is supported by a group of supports flanked by two isolated columns. They have the dado in common. A figure of a woman, holding a crown, stands upon a pedestal, another with a lamb in her right arm, stands upon a bracket. A bust stands at a wall panel. The coat of arms of the House of Savoys is in the wedge beside the arch. A figure, representing Hope, upon the cornice. Above, at the corner, a female figure with a book. An escutcheon is in front of the pediment, upon which a boy with a staff sits.
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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 from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-35-2
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and wash on blue-gray paper
label: Dimensions
content: 40.1 × 18.3 cm (15 13/16 × 7 3/16 in.)