Design for a Chimneypiece with Borghese Dancers
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The fireplace is framed as by the upper part of a molded frame, whose upper end is somewhat projecting. Below is a base. Upon the upper edge stands a relief with nine dancers like those in 1938-88-8200. Laterally stand caryatids shown in profile. An antablature is above. A strip of paper has been pasted over one of its ornamented moldings. Shadow, baseline, plans, scale similar to 1901-039-8194. Figures and feet are added in ordinary ink. At right are rough graphite outlines of an entablature and of the right side of a mantelpiece. Below framing as in 1901-38-8200.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
label: used in
content: England
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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: 1938-88-8201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 × 37.9 cm (11 7/8 × 14 15/16 in.)