Iron Door or Gate of Staircase, Bargello, Florence
date: label: Date
content: November 17, 1888
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet depicting in great detail an iron gate. The center of the gate is composed of lattice strips of iron. Above and below are four square panels, though only the bottom right panel contains an openwork rosette, though it is possible that the artist implies that this is repeated both above and below. The gate has a long latch with notches at the bottom so that it can be made shorter or longer. The latch has a small detail of a head at the end. In the margin of the sheet are fuller renderings of details only sketched in the larger drawing. These are a rosette; a figural nailhead seen from the front and in profile; the side of a bracket; a section of one of the lattice pieces; a section through the door at the bottom; another figural nailhead; and other details of the ornament.
place: label: made in
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: 1943-51-160
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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: 31.2 x 23.9 cm (12 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.), irregular