Design for a Candlestick
date: label: Date
content: mid- 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick. Below is a base in whose upper moulding the designer inscribed in pen and ink "onci 2:12." The boy Hercules is shown standing upon his right leg and strangling a snake with his left hand. His right hand is raised, carrying a vase as the socket. Written on the vase is "di Getto." Accounts are written in graphite in the upper left corner in pen and ink on verso.
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: 1938-88-668
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on green-gray paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.1 × 16.4 cm (9 1/8 × 6 7/16 in.)