Designs for Composite Capitals and Bases
date: label: Date
content: 1530–1540
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Group of architectural designs showing fourteen portions of composite capitals and four bases. Top row: three right halves of capitals shown in elevation. A figure of a harpy with a fishtail scroll. Second row: two left and two right halves of capitals. Third row: four right halves of capitals, one left half. The tops of the shafts are shown below four of the designs. The fifth is supported by a fluted bracket. Bottom row: two right parts of bases of fluted columns, the left half of a capital, a bearded head supporting a fluted bracket fragment of a moulded base, shown from a corner. Verso: at top right, a capital obliquely shown. At bottom edge, three top parts of capital and the left half of another.
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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: 1938-88-4548
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 39 x 29.3 cm (15 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)