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Design for an Illustration: "Architecture"
Fedele Fischetti1760–89
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Standing among remains of classical architecture, a woman points at a plan held by two putti. She carries instruments for measurement in her left hand. A third putto measures a capital. Bordering line. Verso: fragment of a design; pencil, pen. Volutes are connected by intertwined bands.
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- Title: Design for an Illustration: "Architecture"
- Creator: Fedele Fischetti
- Creator Lifespan: 1734/1789
- Date Created: 1760–89
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Brush and gray wash on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and black ink
- Signed: Inscribed in graphite Fischetti; upper center
- Paper Support: cream laid paper
- Markings: Stains in all margins
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink lower right corner Dr? 2Stamp MB in blue lower left versoVerso pen black ink; decorative swag?
- Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.8 cm (4 x 2 11/16 in.)
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