# Three Friezes

- By: Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/7683)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6e517fe5ccc732f105db8e4fd69ff6d4.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.