Door with Dragon, Château de Chambord
date: label: Date
content: May 11, 1888
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal sheet tipped vertically into binding depicting a view of the front and back of a wooden door with a profile of one of its diamond-shaped panels in the center of the sheet. At left and right are the back and front of the door, respectively. The upper section of the door shows a recessed diamond frame on which is the serpentine figure of a dragon breathing fire and surrounded by small flames with a crown suspended in the air above its head. On the front of the door, the dragon faces the right; on the reaf of the door, the dragon faces to the left. the lower half of the front door has another diamond-shaped panel that mimicks the one above, and scattered within it are more small flame carvings. Raised, lozenge-shaped panels dominate the lower half of the door at left. One lozenge has been drawn and is crossed by a line AB. This line is drawn again in the center of the sheet and is the molding profile of the lozenge carving.
place: label: made in
content: Loir-et-Cher, France
label: place depicted
content: Loir-et-Cher, France
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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: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1943-51-203
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 24.9 x 32 cm (9 13/16 x 12 5/8 in.), irregular