Design for Grotesque Decoration
date: label: Date
content: mid–late 16th century
name: label: Artist
content: Unknown
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The edges of the sheet are framed by candelabra (rendered in half form) composed of a variety of swags and animals, notably a pelican at top center; a monkey wearing a jester's cap at upper left; a saytr at center facing left and climbing stairs; a duck and a dragon fly at center and two frolicking rabbits at lower right.
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 the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1994-64-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 13.5 × 7.9 cm (5 5/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: matted with 1994-64-2 and1994-64-3