Sixteen Designs for Consoles
date: label: Date
content: 1720–30
name: label: Designer
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle with sixteen designs for consoles. All but one of the sketches with wash. The consoles are protruding from a frieze. Two are with masks, most with escutcheons, one with a tablet, three with motifs of architectural ornament. Verso: A tree, and in front of it the upper part of a column standing obliquely above a base, with a plummet hanging from its top. Above, a sketch probably showing how to measure the angle of the oblique angle and in graphite, an upright oblong drawn into the oblique column.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-483
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; verso: pen and ink, graphite
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 27.6 × 20.4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/16 in.)