File:Drawing, Design for a Candlestick, ca. 1800 (CH 18547205).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(1,740 × 2,361 pixels, file size: 4.22 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
English: Drawing, Design for a Candlestick, ca. 1800   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Unknown artistUnknown artist
Title
English: Drawing, Design for a Candlestick, ca. 1800
Description
English: Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze and white marble. Design for a candlestick with variations similar to 1938-88-593. Base supported by two lying golden griffons. Upon a half-circular base with decorations of garlands of trophies of vessels stands a column with the statue of Apollo on top. Two arms with burning candles are springing from ram heads, below the Ionic capital. A snake is wrapped around the column. Before the column stands a tripod, between two priestesses supporting with their erected outside arms cornucopias with a burning candle in each. At the bottom, the plan of the base.
Date circa 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on light blue paper
Dimensions 18.5 × 13.4 cm (7 5/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-597
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Inscriptions Watermark: crown and uppermost part of an escutcheon
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Country: Italy
Source/Photographer Catalog Photo

Licensing

[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current14:08, 2 December 2017Thumbnail for version as of 14:08, 2 December 20171,740 × 2,361 (4.22 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)Cooper-Hewitt 697.50 18547205

You cannot overwrite this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Drawing,_Design_for_a_Candlestick,_ca._1800_(CH_18547205).jpg&oldid=723651546"