Two Designs for Statues: Putto with Cock, Friendship and Fidelity
date: label: Date
content: mid- 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Two designs for groups of statues or decorative elements. Figures of Friendship and Fidelity at center, above in a larger scale and in a smaller scale below. Two standing women shown from the front embrace each other. Beside the figure of Friendship at left grows a little tree, and beside the figure of Fidelity at right is a small dog. Both designs are squared and the lines numbered up to 8 and 11, respectively. At left, a putto stands with his right foot upon a blossom. He is shown in profile turned toward the right and carries a rooster with both hands. At right, two squared designs of the same motif symmetrically turned toward left. It is in a greater scale above and in a smaller scale below. Verso: three graphite sketches for candelbra.
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: 1938-88-663
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 ink, graphite on paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 17.4 × 26 cm (6 7/8 × 10 1/4 in.)