Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical composition showing the elevation of an altar with one step leading up. The front is decorated with a cross in a circle in an octagonal panel. The center of the ledge has a tabernacle flanked by six candelabra with three on each side.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- 1780–1800
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-2558
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- religion
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pencil, pen, black ink, brush and various water colors on light creamy paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 17.8 × 16.7 cm (7 in. × 6 9/16 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_1901-39-2558
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4cdf35e30-ee49-4681-bfb9-0de91335e92d
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