Two Octagons: Vigilance, Beneficence.
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1813
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Top: Vigilance shown seated between two putti raising lamp with right hand, holding something indistinct in left hand. Caption written above in black chalk: "Vigilanza." Bottom: Beneficence shown seated and holding two cornucopiae helped by two putti. Caption: " beneficenza." Small part of another drawing at left edge. Verso: small parts of two pen sketches. Left edges of left row sketches on reverse of -3394. Captions as in 1901-39-3260. On reverse 1901-39-3260part of pen sketch similar to this. Variant 1901-39-3393.
place: label: made in
content: 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-3259
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and brownish grey wash on rough paper.
label: Dimensions
content: 12 x 25.4 cm (4 3/4 x 10 in.)