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Drawing

ca. 1780–90

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Project for the decoration, probably, of the upper part of a pilaster. Vertical rectangle. Above: a molding is a tablet with a cherub, supporting the inner ends of two festoons; above: "B"[eata] "M"[aria] "V"[irgo]. Below: an estucheon is suspended from the festoon of ribbon, whose ends are at the sides hanging down. In the center of the estucheon an oval with a figure, above and below a cherub. the latter supporting with his mouth a cord with a bunch. On the back the right part of a sketch, black crayon, see -92.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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