Altar Lamp
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1825
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a lamp; the main part of the body with garlands supported in front by two cherubim. At left, allegorical figure of Justice, and at right of Strength, are sitting upon volutes; behind the figures are fastened chains. Five flames are burning at the lamp's central opening. Above, the ring at the top of the lamp is supported by a dragon. The lower part of the drawing is upon an applied piece of paper. Verso: two sketches for the group. Below, the remnants of a figure.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, 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: 1938-88-618
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white laid paper; verso: pen and ink, graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 33.2 x 18.8 cm (13 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.)