Design for Grotesque Decoration
Object Details
- Artist
- Unknown
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The edges of the sheet are framed by candelabra (rendered in half form) composed of a variety of swags and animals, notably a pelican at top center; a monkey wearing a jester's cap at upper left; a saytr at center facing left and climbing stairs; a duck and a dragon fly at center and two frolicking rabbits at lower right.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund
- mid–late 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1994-64-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted on laid paper
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 13.5 × 7.9 cm (5 5/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.)
- matted with 1994-64-2 and1994-64-3
- 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_1994-64-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44d06af7a-b53d-40fb-86f6-198c54afe439
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