Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a chimneypiece intended to be executed in marble and bronze. Satyrs without arms are standing upon bases in front of the lateral pillars of the chimney. The chimney's frieze is decorated with lions with rinceaux as tails. Below are the plan and the scale of the chimney.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, 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: 1938-88-640
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.6 × 43.5 cm (12 1/16 × 17 1/8 in.)