Two figures as crests of poles
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- At left a winged mermaid raises with both arms curved branches. At right, in a greater scale, a merman bends the two branches which grow from the end of the pole, together with raised arms.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1780–1790
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-1985
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- 22.7 x 14.8 cm (8 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
- made in
- Rome, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-1985
