The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable
date: label: Date
content: 1770–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle showing elevation. At the top, a tabernacle, showing the Annunciation at its door, stands in the center of a ledge and at the base of the retable. It has the shape of an aedicula with four embedded columns. On each side, there are two rows of seven ovoidal frames. A saint stands at the left. A putto, carrying an oivoidal medallion with a saint, sits at the right. A circular pediment is on top, flanked by two urns containing fire. Two putti sit upon it and support a crown. At the bottom is a scale and a plan of a retable in pavilion shape. On verso: pencil plans with scale in the opposite direction.
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: 1938-88-2623
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and grey and black watercolors on laid paper.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 38.2 × 25.2 cm (15 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)