Design, a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers
date: label: Date
content: 1590–1610
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A mountainous landscape is shown in the lower half. It is bordered on top by an arched stripe. IN front of it are seated, at left: a river god; at right, a source nymph. Her left arm leans upon a lion crouching beside her. A dragon flies in the upper center of the landscape. Above it is a shell-like escutcheon with a displayed eagle, holding in his beak the staff of the cross of an archbishop or cardinal. A prelate's hat with cords, terminating with one tassel, is on top. The esctucheon is flanked by Ceres and Jupiter, at left; Mars, Mercurius, at right. They are seated upon clouds. Jupiter raises a diadem and a laurel wreath with his left hand. Framine lines. Verso: a hat similar to that on the recto with an elaborated flourish of one of the cords, which is repeated in a bigger scale.
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: 1938-88-8228
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and brush and bistre on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 18.8 × 23.9 cm (7 3/8 × 9 7/16 in.)