Sketches for a tabletca. 1750
A tablet with a head rising from the middle of the top rim; its frame is supported by a woman leaning upon the tablet at left: a standing woman is alternatively suggested at right. More about this work
About this work
A tablet with a head rising from the middle of the top rim; its frame is supported by a woman leaning upon the tablet at left: a standing woman is alternatively suggested at right. Second row: a cloth frames the tablet; it is supported at left by a woman; at right on top by a flying angel, at the bottom by a kneeling figure. At right, a tablet is flanked by the two seated women. Third row, at right: the left half is shown; a chimera supporting a tablet. Bottom: a tablet with a pediment with a mask on top is supported by a standing angel, at left, by a flying small one at right.
Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
How it was made
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1901-39-2245
- Credit
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Type
- Drawing
- Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
