Design for Mantelpieceand Adjoining Wall Friezes
The right half of the fireplace and the lower right corner of the looking-glass are shown. The frieze is decorated with festoons hanging beside an ovoidal medallion at right, with figures in the center. Brackets supporting the entablature separate the panels. Figures decorate the frieze at the wall. Reliefs for the mantelpiece in the Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
1789
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
1938-88-1678
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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