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Design for Secretary Desk
ca. 1805
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A secretary desk, section and elevation. It is ornamented with two painted panels, one, lozenge-shaped, of a dancing bacchante; the other, a horizontal oval of a landscape with ruins. Upper portion has tambour cabinets either side of a square central bay, pedimented and surmounted by an urn.
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Details
- Title: Design for Secretary Desk
- Date Created: ca. 1805
- Location Created: Germany
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on paper
- Credit line: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
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