Design for a Clock
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a clock intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze and white and colored marble. Two crouching griffins support a round pedestal with a frieze of dancing girls. Above stands a tripod, with Atlas carrying the globe, which contains the dial of the clock, framed outside by busts of gods. At top is a rooster supporting a garland. Beside the tripod are the figures of the Fates.
place: label: made 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: 1938-88-592
objectType: label: Type
content: timepieces & measuring devices
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 49.2 × 25.3 cm (19 3/8 × 9 15/16 in.)