Elevation of a Chapel, with Alternative Suggestions
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The door is in a high niche which is flanked by embedded fluted Ionic columns. At the corners of the façade stand similar ones with parts of such additionally suggested at left. Above the keystone of the arch is a cherub. Angels lying upon the arch are suggested at right. A festoon hangs in front of the wedge at left. It hangs from the escutcheon in the middle of the entablature. A circular pediment is flanked by a dado, carrying vases at left, a statue of a child at right. A ribbed dome is shown at left as decorated in the interior. At right the scalloped covering is shown. A cross stands on top. The scale is below. "Piedi 3". ON verso: architectural construction in graphite.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1650–1680
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-8224
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and bistre on paper
- Dimensions
- 57.6 × 40.2 cm (22 11/16 × 15 13/16 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_1938-88-8224
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48fdd1c4d-749f-4748-b18e-3f5bc228c0a3
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