Well Head, Venice
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sheet cut down to make a rectangle slightly larger in width than height. Depicted is a stone, carved well head with Christian iconography. The well is in the shape of a capital. It is raised on a small square plinth with canted corners. The main sculptural composition consists of two figures kneeling, their arms resting on one bent knee to support a cross inscribed within two circles, like a Greek cross. There is a small diamond-pattern molding above. The well appears to have a two-sided cover that hinges in the middle and, when opened, the cover rests against an ironwork scroll. A chain hangs over the edge of the well on the right. At the bottom left is the well head in plan view. A scale is indicated for each sketch.
place: label: made in
content: Venice, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Venice, 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: 1943-51-170
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on textured thick white wove paper mounted to thick cream wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 14.4 x 16 cm (5 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.), irregular; mount: 31.9 x 24.9 cm (12 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.), irregular