Design for a Brooch
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a brooch. An eagle with spread wings, supporting with his beak a teardrop-shaped diamond, and in his claws a scroll with the inscription: LIBERTE EGALITE
place: label: made in
content: possibly North Italy, 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: 1938-88-890
objectType: label: Type
content: jewelry
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on light green paper
label: Dimensions
content: 8.5 × 10.5 cm (3 3/8 × 4 1/8 in.)