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Drawing, Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques
This is a Drawing. It was created by Unknown. It is dated early 16th century and we acquired it in 1956. Its medium is pen and brown ink on paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This early 16th-century drawing features a candelabrum with similar motifs to Nicoletto’s engravings, also in this gallery. The candelabrum as a focal point enabled artists and designers to create vertical ornament that builds on itself, and it became a common theme of grotesque designs. Here, a menagerie of satyrs, sphinxes, harpies, dragons, dolphins, serpents, birds, and rams intertwine amid disembodied heads and vegetal tendrils.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Walter Leo Hildburgh.
- Print, Ornament Panel Inscribed "Victoria Augusta"
- engraving on off white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1946-29-4
- Print, Ornament Panel with Bird Cage
- engraving on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1946-29-3
- Print, Ornamental Candelabrum
- etching on white laid paper, lined.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-25
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Drawing, Four Grotesque Candelabrum, 1600–1630
- red chalk, incised lines on paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-6721
- Drawing, Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy
- brush and brown wash, black chalk on laid paper, squared in black chalk.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-7321
- Drawing, Study for Candelabrum Motif and Strapwork Escutcheon
- pen and brown ink, black chalk, brush and violet watercolor on off-white laid....
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-2923
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 26.4 × 20 cm (10 3/8 × 7 7/8 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: siren within a circle (cf. Briquet no. 13833; Rome, 1490-98, Udine, 1493)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques; Unknown; Italy; pen and brown ink on paper, lined; H x W x D: 26.4 × 20 cm (10 3/8 × 7 7/8 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Walter Leo Hildburgh; 1956-41-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Fragile Beasts.
