Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying a Lamp
date: label: Date
content: 1779–84
name: label: Artist
content: Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural fantasy. A drawing of a tomb with a sarcophagus in a rounded-arch niche. A robed figure of Death stands before the sarcophagus holding a smoking lamp. The tomb is flanked by 2 recumbent lions carved in stone.
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: 1938-88-3952
objectType: label: Type
content: theater
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gray, blue-gray wash, graphite on off-white paper
label: Dimensions
content: 14.6 × 20.2 cm (5 3/4 × 7 15/16 in.)