Sketches for Escutcheons
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1590
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Masks are shown at top and bottom, half-figures of harpies laterally. Both are fully colored. On verso: two elongated escutcheons, the left one without ornamentation, the right one with two foliated masks facing each other.
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: 1938-88-2614
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 dark brown inks, brush and black wash on laid paper. On verso: Black chalk, pen and ink, bistre on laid paper.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22.1 × 15.2 cm (8 11/16 in. × 6 in.)