Design for the rear of a carriage
Unknown Maker
Two Atlantid, aided by two putti, hold a canopy over a cave in which a nymph of a source crouches. A scaffolding rises on top, topped laterally be seated children. A coat of arms help in the top center before a tasseled cloth by two seated putti.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
1700-1750
Black chalk on paper
1938-88-3174
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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