Design for an entrance wall to a music or dance hall
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Five bays with a door opening with curtains in the center flanked by framed panels with dancers over sofas. The overdoors show Arion at left and a maenad at right. The decoration of the ceiling cove refers to Music and Poetry. Homer, Apollo, and a poet are the subjects of the painting in the frieze.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- 1830
- Accession Number
- 1911-28-127
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Ben and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 39.7 × 74.4 cm (15 5/8 × 29 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1911-28-127
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4b39a81dc-512a-48ca-9dca-b1814405795f
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