Remus Drives Away and Kills the Robbers of the Herds; Santuary for the Fugitives on the Campidoglio, Two Studies after Carracci
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, figure clad in animal skin with club upraised (probably Remus), at left, standing over slain man; he is about to strike nude man herding ox. Goat, cows, and oxen seen in background. Other figures moving towards right from left. Lower drawing, two men, seen in half-figure; (one looks over shoulder, with outstretched right arm) move across stream, toward temple at middle ground. More figures at right. Hilly landscape setting.
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: 1901-39-3581
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, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on white heavy wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.7 x 22.8 cm (12 1/16 x 9 in.)