File:Drawing, Design for a Chimney Piece, 1800 (CH 18548275).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Chimney Piece, 1800   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Drawing, Design for a Chimney Piece, 1800
Description
English: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a chimney piece intended to be executed in marble and bronze. Gaines with women, who support with their outside arms the entablature, are standing upon bases in front of the lateral pillar stripes. The frieze is decorated with half-figures of winged monsters standing symmetrically beside a candelabrum. In the intervals stand athletes holding crossed reins. Below is the plan and the scale.
Date 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
Dimensions 35.7 × 47.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 13/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-639
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Inscriptions Watermark: [V]ANDER LEY and Strasburg bend and lily, bending to the left
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and ink, in line with scale at bottom: Palmi Romani
  • Country: Italy
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