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Three Friezes
Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823)
ca. 1800
- Medium
- Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash on laid paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 12.4 x 43.4 cm (4 7/8 x 17 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Upper row, left: bearded and foliated masks connected by festoons. At right, horizontal bar surrounded by waved vine branch. Bottom row: row of festoons hanging from disks in center of bow-knots. Above, festoons as tablets with inscriptions. Winged sphinx shown in profile, partly outlined.
