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Design for a Fan: Capriccio with Roman Ruins and the Farnese Hercules
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691 - 1765)
ca. 1750
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper, lined
- Classification
- Costume accessories
- Dimensions
- 14.1 x 26 cm (5 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Semi-circular design corresponding to the shape of an open fan, illustrated with Roman ruins and statuary. Identifiable imagery includes the Farnese Hercules, the Pantheon and the lion fountain of the capital. At the top in pen and ink, a sketch for a border decoration.
