Design for a Chandelier
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for a chandelier, on top is a ring. The upper part has the shape of a garden umbrella, from which another umbrella hangs. The candles are carried by branches, fastened to two rings, eight--five are shown--to an upper one, sixteen are shown to a lower one. Below is a glass bowl. Scale below.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1830
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-728
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.1 × 24.8 cm (14 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
- made in
- Austria
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-728
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e10baac2-e6f3-4996-9074-663555f9aa59
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