View of a Monastery Receiving Visit from Great People
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle.The buildings of the monastery are in the middle ground upon a terrace of a hill sloping down to the foreground. There is a wall with the gateway, where a guard and a group of monks stand. Monks and soldiers are on the road connecting the gateways, outer and inner, in front of the church. One of the soldiers busies himself to chase two fighting dogs. A coach drawn by four horses, preceded by a courier, approaches from right. A family sits inside. Another coach with two horses follows. At left are groups of figures.Trees flank the scene, composition surrounded by two framing border lines.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1770–86
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-488
- Designer
- Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Black chalk, brush and gray-black watercolor on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 34.2 x 51.3 cm (13 7/16 x 20 3/16 in.)
- made in
- Rome, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-488
