The Vestal Tuccia Carries Water in Sieve; Two Studies after Polidoro da Caravaggio
date: label: Date
content: 1821–22
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper drawing of woman carrying round tray rushing left toward round temple; behind her crowd of men, and in distance palace and top of obelisk. Lower drawing of emperor or warrior in classical dress on throne pointing at nude man (oversized), held by two men who
label: Description
content: are about to beat him with flails. (The man being beaten may be of normal size, and the others youths.) In background various men, one with fasces, and city wall.
place: label: Place
content: Italy
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: 1901-39-3569
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Sketchbook folio
label: Type
content: Sketchbook folio
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk Support: white heavy wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.7 x 22.9 cm (12 1/16 x 9 in.)