# Sketches for a tablet, in Conte Antonio Maria Zanetti, the Elder's contemporaries

Carlo Marchionni drew this in about 1750, aged 48. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1750
- Medium: Pen and black ink on laid paper
- Dimensions: 25.5 x 17 cm (10 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1901-39-2245
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Carlo Marchionni](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/carlo-marchionni), Italian, 1702–1786

2 works in the collection.

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