Drawing of Scrolling Ironwork
date: label: Date
content: September 13, 1887
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 an elaborate black ironwork railing, as the artist notes, is from an altar. At left the railing begins with a thick square post decorated with very small gold quatrefoils (possibly blind?), and terminates in a tall post that emerges from what the artist calls a "sort of serpents head," and is capped by a ball finial. The decorative frieze of the railing adjacent to the post is in the shape of repeated figure 8, which trails into a single rod of metal that makes large scrolls (according to the artist's notation, this is "12 in". The scrolls regularly terminate in the head of either a dolphin or a parrot. The scrollwork meets what is likely the center of the railing where the letters IHS painted golden yellow are inscribed in two confronted scrolls that create the shape of a heart. Beyond this the scrollwork is only rendered faintly with watercolor to indicate the railing's continuation. Below this are two sets of ironwork of the same pattern, a heart shape similar to that in the section of railing above, although only scrolling and foliate elements highlighted in gold are contained therein.
place: label: made in
content: Freudenstadt, Germany
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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: 1943-51-119
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 32 x 25 cm (12 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.), irregular