Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The alternative suggestions refer to a different form of the cornices of the entablature, to a different decoration of most moldings, to the use of a red st one, at right, a yellow marble at left. The inner frame consists of some moldings upon bases. The outer one of projecting stripes in horizontal angular form upon bases. They are framed by moldings and decorated inside by rinceaux with blossoms in the spirals. They spring from a calyx, above in the center. Shadow, base line, and plans similar to those in 1938-88-8205. Scale, framing lines as in 1938-88-8201 "No. 2" and "No. 3" are written below at left and right, respectively, in pen and brown ink. Indication of scale in English feet.
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: 1938-88-8206
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.9 × 33.7 cm (11 3/8 × 13 1/4 in.)