Design for a Chimneypiece, Pen and ink, brush and gray, yellow watercolor, graphite on paper, Horizontal rectangle. Design for a chimneypiece intended to be executed in white marble with a small band in gilt bronze. Pillars at the sides, the bodies with rinceaux springing from acanthus calyxes, the capitals with two theatrical masks with alternative sugestions. An inner framing frieze is decorated with grotesque candelabra. The center of the friezes above is projecting: two eagles are in a square supporting a festoon; above, a theatrical mask. At the outsides are two ram's heads with garlands. Above mouldings. The friezes beside the capitals show rinceaux. Below the scale., Rome, Italy, ca. 1800, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing
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Design, Chimneypiece, Pen, ink, brush, gray, yellow watercolor, graphite, paper, Horizontal rectangle, Design, chimneypiece intended, executed, white marble, small band, gilt bronze, Pillars, sides, bodies, rinceaux springing, acanthus calyxes, capitals, two theatrical masks, alternative sugestions, inner framing frieze, decorated, grotesque candelabra, center, friezes, projecting, two eagles, square supporting, festoon, theatrical mask, outsides, two ram's heads, garlands, mouldings, friezes beside, capitals, rinceaux, scale, Rome, Italy, ca, 1800, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing
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