Two Friezes
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1815
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Right edge above: windged putto sit upon scrolls symmetrically arranged on stem with blossom, and swan in the internval. From spirals rises stem with leaves. Above interval, bird. Figures 1 to 3, below, at left: "1 fondo bocaro/ 2 ornati bianchi/ 3 putti coloriti." Below: a rectularly broken band entwined with waved flower-stem. Figures 1 to 3: "1 fondo bianco/ 2 linea verde/ [framing lines above and below] 3 meandro di Sacca/ 4 fiori tiuchini semi gialli." Verso: section of room with vaulted ceiling decorated like tent. Below: tablet with inscription: "Enea oserva li fatti di troia/ con Acatte nel tempio." (Aeneid, Book I, ll 446-519)
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1216
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and bistre on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 14.5 x 22 cm (5 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)