Design for a Park Colonnade
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1827
name: label: Artist
content: Josef Georg Kornhäusel, Austrian, 1782 - 1860
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural design for a park colonnade. The central part consists of four fluted columns of Doric order. Through the intercolumniation, view of a park; figures of a couple at right. Laterally are pilasters standing upon dados, sarcophagus-like. The sticks of tridents, shown between sea horses in the friezes, hang downwards. Below are lion masks from which water pours into basins in front of the dados. Above, the entablature; three steps in the central part and vases between.
place: label: made in
content: Vienna, Austria
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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 from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-3
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on rough blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41.3 × 66 cm (16 1/4 × 26 in.)