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Design for an Altar

Filippo Marchionni

Vertical rectangle. Design for an altar with decorative sculptural niche and surrounding sculptures and columns, right side incomplete.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund

c. 1780-90
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk on white laid paper
1938-88-496
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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