Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1830
name: label: Artist
content: Pietro Camporese the Younger, Italian, Roman, 1792–1873
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a mantelpiece. The mantelpiece is depicted at the center of the composition, imbeded into a wall. In the fireplace design itself, laterally are pilasters with trophies hanging by a ribbon from a rosette. The central part of the projecting upper frieze is decorated with a relief of a Roman emperor, receiving captives. Classical helmets are in each of the two corners of the frieze. There is burning fire illustrated in the fireplace.
place: label: designed in
content: Rome, 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: 1938-88-4300
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: Pen and black ink, watercolor, black chalk indications on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 24.9 x 34.3cm (9 13/16 x 13 1/2in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)