Design for a Sofa
date: label: Date
content: 1800–20
name: label: Designer
content: Brothers Santi, Rome, Italy
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At left, the elevation of a sofa divided into three sections, the arm shown at the left. At right, the left end of the sofa shown in profile. The sections are bordered below by the legs, at the back by tripods. Above the upholstery is a frieze, divided in panels with acanthus scrolls fastened by a wreath, and pilaster strips, above the tripods and the arms, with acanthus leaves. The arms are supported by half-figures of animals with acanthus scrolls. Their left legs lie upon a cup. Colored base strip scale at bottom. Verso: sketches referring to frames of looking glasses and mouldings with inscribed captions.
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: 1938-88-559
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; verso: graphite, pen and ink
label: Dimensions
content: 19.1 x 33.3 cm (7 1/2 x 13 1/8 in.)