Industry and Commerce (Design for Pediment)
date: label: Date
content: 1875–80
name: label: Artist
content: Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Athena stands in the center, flanked by seated figures. At left, a rider upon a winged horse; at right, two horses of a chariot. On the lateral corners, standing women with scrolls and groups of two seated and one kneeling figure. The seated figures represent two women studying from a book, at left; a woman and Mercurius, at right. The pediment supportedby two sketched capitols.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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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: Gift of Mrs. Walter Shirlaw
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1912-16-95
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, white chalk on brown cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 40.2 × 81.6 cm (15 13/16 × 32 1/8 in.)