Design for Ceiling with Triumph of Galatea
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Drawn into plan of room. Center oval representation of pageant of Amphitrite framed in oblong frame and facing door. Curtains fastened to it and to edges of ceiling, like sides of tent, which forms arch below, containing crouching dragons beside candelabrum. Oblique hexagonal panels connect corners of ceiling of frame, containing candelabra.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-3082
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown and black ink, brush with watercolor over traces of graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.9 x 28.1 cm (12 3/16 x 11 1/16 in.)