Design for a Cross
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Spear and sponge staffs are crossed in front of a cross, their bottom and top parts being held by pairs of flying angels. The upper ones hold with their bare hands a wreath on the cross. Similar wreaths are at the ends of the other parts of the cross. Two flying angels support the cross arm. Framing lines.
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: 1938-88-665
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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
label: Dimensions
content: 33 × 20.1 cm (13 in. × 7 15/16 in.)