Design for a Frieze
date: label: Date
content: 1840–75
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Right half of a design for a frieze is shown. At left are scrolls of an escutcheon with a sitting putto leaning upon them. At right is a trophy of arms, with two putti sitting upon it and a third putto flying. He and one of the stiting putti busy themselves with an ovoidal shield. The sitting one holds a palm branch in his other hand. The other sitting putto raises a wreath with his left hand.
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: 1938-88-672
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
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
label: Dimensions
content: 8.9 × 29.1 cm (3 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)