Recto: Two Friezes with Flowers Verso: Sketch for a Decorative Painting
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1815
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Recto: Above: two waved ribbons crossing each other. Calices stand in wedges. In ovoids are lozenges with curved edges, wreath around masks inside. Numbers inscribed and explained in caption: "1 tuta colorita/ 2 turchino/ 3 fondo rosso/ 4 giallo limone/ 5 pavonasso/ 6 fiore verde/ 7 foglie del ovato colo[r] di rosa/ 8 Line[e] gialle/ 9 fondo della maschera celeste." Below: decorated ribbon around horizontal bar from which sprays spring. Caption: "1 Linea verde/ 2 fondo della fetucia, perlino/ 3 giole della festucia verdi legate in oro/ con perle/ 4 meandro giallo/ 5 fondo del meandro turchino/ 6 triangolo rosso con perla/ 7 fiore bianco/ foglie verdi." Verso: above, two figures written in octagon: "venere in abito/ di caciatrice insegn[a] Cartagine a Enea." Two figures, Aeneas and Dido, shown in cave. Underneath figures, caption in pencil: "Enea con Didone nel antro/ ...imene."
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: 1901-39-1215
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 14.8 x 19.8 cm (5 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)