Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1800
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a chimney piece intended to be executed in marble and bronze. Gaines with women, who support with their outside arms the entablature, are standing upon bases in front of the lateral pillar stripes. The frieze is decorated with half-figures of winged monsters standing symmetrically beside a candelabrum. In the intervals stand athletes holding crossed reins. Below is the plan and the scale.
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: 1938-88-639
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.7 × 47.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 13/16 in.)