Designs for Cartouches
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Cartouches, formed by two trees and two dolphins, three birds flying above. Verso: cartouche formed by two trees with two children with fishtail legs riding upon dolphins below two children in clouds above. Alternative suggestion for the top with two flying birds.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-493
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 sepia ink on laid paper; verso: pen and ink, graphite
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 18.3 x 22.2 cm (7 3/16 x 8 3/4 in.)