Design for a Frieze
date: label: Date
content: 1840–75
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Left half of a design for a frieze is shown. The half-figure of a fantastic sea lion is shown in profile turned toward right. Creature holds a laurel branch in its mouth and supports a standing scrollwork escutcheon at right. The back of the body is transformed into an acanthus rinceau. A figure sits upon the lion shown in profile, turned toward left.
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: 1938-88-671
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 brown ink, graphite on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.5 × 17.7 cm (4 1/8 × 6 15/16 in.)