A Frame, Escutcheon, Centaur
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1850
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. The top of an oblong frame with a scrollwork with a female mask in top center. In center, an escutcheon with a cherub framed laterally by half-figures of harpies. At bottom right, a winged centaur, shown in profile, turned toward right. Verso: The Madonna, obliquely shown, standing turned toward right. At left, a pen sketch of a right hand holding a quill.
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: 1938-88-2612
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and bistre ink on laid paper; verso: black chalk, pen and ink, brush and dark brown watercolor, wash
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 21.9 × 15 cm (8 5/8 × 5 7/8 in.)