Scaffolding for Exhibition of a Revered Painting
Four entire elevations are shown, three of which include pairs of angels. All provide for a mensa-like dado and for a crown topped by candles on top. Three designs are concerned with a framing of the painting by candle brackets; one of them in hardly begun.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
1815-1838
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, red ink on lined off-white laid paper
1938-88-1123
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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