Design for a Sculptured Coat of Arms; Verso: Sketches of Architectural Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1580–1600
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A scrollwork escutcheon contains two shields with a greyhound rampant and a bear rampant, respectively. Two arms rise from the helmet; the hands hold a book. A scroll with the inscription NOSCE TEMET is on top. At the lower ends of the manteling heavy tassels. Ovoidal molded fram for which an interlacement band is is suggested in its top part. Below at right, pen scratching and written "Ca...(?). Verso: Three sketches referring to volutes, shown obliquely and from the front. Above at left are horizontally drawn two oblique views of an entablature. A circle is drawn below at left.
place: label: made in
content: Belgium
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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: 1938-88-8222
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 37.7 × 28.2 cm (14 13/16 × 11 1/8 in.)