Project for a Canopy
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Two out of eight sides are shown form the inside. Supported by poles, of which the top of one is shown. Their capitals are connected by a frieze with a crest border from which lambrequins are suspended. The left one of the upper triangles shows a girl carrying a flower basket upon a pedestal. A candelabrum decorates the right one, including swans, a peacock, and other birds, and a putto holding a garland.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- ca. 1785
- Accession Number
- 1908-26-135
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and gouache water color, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 26.6 cm (8 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1908-26-135
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45260fd95-b6c1-43e0-8671-a13b7e83ff8b
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