Modillion from the Bargello, Florence
date: label: Date
content: November 7, 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet tipped horizontally into binding depicting a modillion from the front and side. The front view has a molding of small oak leaves at the top, with the long, swooping lines of a large leaf below. The side view of the modillion is read perpendicular to the front view. It shows the modillion has a scroll terminating in a rosette at either end. The field above the scroll is tinted yellow and has short, intersecting lines, as if to imply a crackled surface.
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Florence, 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: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1943-51-151
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, graphite on thick cream wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 24.1 x 18 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.), irregular