Project: The elevation of an altar. With alternative suggestions
date: label: Date
content: 1740–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. The designs are different in the left and right halves. The mensa is supported by scrolls. Plain moldings form the oblong retable frame. An escutcheon crowned by a cross rises on top in front of a shell at left of an architectural background of a column, at right. A twisted column is shown at left, a volute and a baluster, at right.
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: 1938-88-2498
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen, ink, bistre; blue gouache colors, white heightening on greyish blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 42.1 x 27.5 cm (16 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.)