Design for a Sofa
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a sofa or chaise longue shown slightly obliquely in profile, with the head at left. Below are four knobs, the wooden parts of the framework are curved. A cloth with fringes at the lower end and with framing bands at the sides is tightened across. A curtain lies upon the head of the sofa which is elevated. Bunches of feathers stand upon columns at the four corners, their shafts shaped like turnks of palm trees, the columns higher at the head of the sofa than at the foot. Two base lines; remnants of a framing line at the right and upper edges. Verso: vertically, parts of pencil drawings, above: of a leaf scroll, below of a winged half-figure ending with a leaf scroll.
place: 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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-579
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 20.2 × 28.2 cm (7 15/16 × 11 1/8 in.)