The Dancing Bear
date: label: Date
content: 1807–08
name: label: Artist
content: Bartolomeo Pinelli, (Italian, 1781–1835)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The bear and its leader are variations of the motif plate 7, loc. cit.; the bear holds a pole. A piper, two women and a child are at left, the woman with the terrified girl, the Capuchin, both similar to loc. cit., a woman with a baby is at right, a boy in the rear. The setting is a street of a place near Rome.
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: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-73-288
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and gray ink with watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 20.4 × 27.9 cm (8 1/16 in. × 11 in.)