Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The opening is framed by a part of a frame. Laterally are pilaster strips, with oblongs with colored marble, and with baskets above. Above the inner frame is in the center an ovoidal medallion with Psyche and Cupid between two panels with colored marble. On top are cornices of an entablature. Base line. Cast shadow and slightly colored background. Below are the plans at left of the lateral parts, at right of the right half of the entablature. Below is the scale. Partso f a framing line are below.
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: 1938-88-8217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and black ink and bistre, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.5 × 37.7 cm (12 in. × 14 13/16 in.)