File:Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum and a Crucifix, 1803 (CH 18549133).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum and a Crucifix, 1803   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum and a Crucifix, 1803
Description
English: Vertical rectangle. Design for candelabrum at center. Lion feet on wood sockles support a base upon which a calyx of three leaves stands, upside down. The shaft has the shape of a decorative baluster. It supports a bowl over which the socket rises. Roughly sketched in graphite at top are two arms with candles. At left, a small crucifix with a tongue at the bottom. Scale at bottom. Verso: a segment.
Date 1803
date QS:P571,+1803-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper; verso: pen and ink
Dimensions 29.2 × 19.6 cm (11 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-670
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Inscriptions Watermark: crowned coat of arms over PM, charges, stars and stripes
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and ink, lower left: Mezzo Palmo di Papatto Romano; in pen and ink, lower right: 1803
  • Country: Italy
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