Africa, Design for a Pendentive in the Baptismal Vestibule of St. Peter’s, Rome
date: label: Date
content: 1713–26
name: label: Artist
content: Francesco Trevisani, Italian, 1656 - 1746
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A seated figure with an elephant headdress holds a scorpion. A lion at the right.
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: 1901-39-1699
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, traces of black chalk on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.1 x 33.2 cm (10 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)