Design for an Easter Sepulchre
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1757
name: label: Artist
content: Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Framed by an arch, with below, at left, the groups of a pope with the cross, two angels, and at right the high priest, with two angels, supporting respectively the tablets of the Law and an axe, and above two angels with respectively the Veronica and the Crown of Thorns. In the pediment are two angels in clouds, supporting the cross. Inside, upon four steps, stands the sepulchre, with Christ lying upon the sarcophagus. Two angels kneel in the architecture. Above it is a glory, evidently as background for the monstrance. In the background are clouds with angels, and God the Father. Written below, at right, upon a base: "Vincenz Fischer / 22 Novemb: 1757 / in 8 giorni / Waldkirchen. Framing lines.
place: label: made in
content: Austria, Europe
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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: 1938-88-3575
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 grey watercolor on light brown paper.
label: Dimensions
content: 48.4 × 31.3 cm (19 1/16 × 12 5/16 in.)