Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
date: label: Date
content: 1755–57
name: label: Artist
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Description
content: An ornate mantelpiece, decorated with sculpted reliefs of lion heads and scrolls, occupies the center of the design. A carved frame, supported by pilasters and ornamented with garlands, rosettes, and griffins terminates in a triangular pediment. The overmantel contains an antique bust of Antinous in profile lightly drawn in graphite. Flanking the mantelpiece are two men. On the right, a man who seems to be of humble origins, accompanied by a dog, crouches, holding wooden planks. On the left, a well-dressed man stands and watches, holding a walking stick.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1326
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 brown ink, brush and brown, gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.5 x 26.9 cm (14 x 10 9/16 in.)