File:Drawing, Design for a Chimneypiece, ca. 1800 (CH 18548383).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Chimneypiece, ca. 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 Chimneypiece, ca. 1800
Description
English: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a chimneypiece intended to be executed in white marble with a small band in gilt bronze. Pillars at the sides, the bodies with rinceaux springing from acanthus calyxes, the capitals with two theatrical masks with alternative sugestions. An inner framing frieze is decorated with grotesque candelabra. The center of the friezes above is projecting: two eagles are in a square supporting a festoon; above, a theatrical mask. At the outsides are two ram's heads with garlands. Above mouldings. The friezes beside the capitals show rinceaux. Below the scale.
Date circa 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium pen and ink, brush and gray, yellow watercolor, graphite on paper
Dimensions 38.3 × 48.8 cm (15 1/16 × 19 3/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-643
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Inscriptions Watermark: like Churchill 433, without initials
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  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and ink, in line with scale, bottom: Palmi Romani
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