Elevation of the Belmont Menagerie, Newport, Rhode Island
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Object Details
- Artist
- Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A colorful proposal for Oliver Belmont's monkey house. The building is to be a three-story structure with a central observation tower, and two flanking wings, here presented in a verdant landscape.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. William Greenough
- ca. 1894
- Accession Number
- 1943-51-366
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite, brush and brown, black, green, blue, red, and yellow watercolor, white gouache, on thin cream illustration board
- Dimensions
- 13.3 x 27.1 cm (5 1/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1943-51-366
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f17208fd-4055-443f-bb05-6133ef09e472
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