# Africa, Design for a Pendentive in the Baptismal Vestibule of St. Peter’s, Rome

- By: Francesco Trevisani (Italian, 1656 - 1746)
- Date: 1713–26
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, traces of black chalk on white laid paper
- Classification: Interior views
- Dimensions: 26.1 x 33.2 cm (10 1/4 x 13 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/8229)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3016a3be7266e78a7d39e0304b035c44.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A seated figure with an elephant headdress holds a scorpion. A lion at the right.