Project for Ceiling Design Depicting Aurora
date: label: Date
content: 1810–25
name: label: Artist
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Circular composition. Aurora flies toward right holding leaves above a basket which is carried by putti. One putto below pours water from a jar. In the left background is Apollo rising in a chariot. Framed by a square in graphite, the lines being divided into eight parts.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-3213
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 33.1 x 30 cm (13 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)