Design for Sculpture: Angel Blowing Serpentine Horn
date: label: Date
content: late 17th century
name: label: Artist
content: Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An angel stands contrapposto atop a plinth, head turned to the left while blowing into a serpentine horn terminating in the head of a beast.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
label: made in
content: France
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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: 1938-88-2213
objectType: label: Type
content: sculpture
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 brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper, laid down
label: Dimensions
content: 20.1 x 14.3cm (7 15/16 x 5 5/8in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)