Designs for a Console Looking Glass, Pen and brown ink, graphite on cream wove paper, Vertical rectangle. Two designs for a console with mirror divided vertically in half at center. The top of the console table is an entablature supported by capitals upon the heads of lions, a crouching lion at right, a seated lion at left upon bases. The height of the table is indicated as 'p. som. 4,' written in graphite at lower right. The mirror has an inner moulded frame. It has below a dado with a decorated frieze, and laterally columns. Upon these stand a Gothic two-foil of a kind standing upon a calyx at left, a female figure carrying a vase upon her head at right. On top are an ornament of crossed scrolls, at left, griffins beside a circular medallion with a female hand, at right. Verso: roughly outlined plans., Rome, Italy, 1815–30, furniture, Drawing, Drawing
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