Watercolour Drawing
1777 (made)
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Watercolour drawing depicting a design for a proscenium arch. Frontispiece designed by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, 1777.
Design for the frontispiece of Covent Garden Theatre, London; showing a proscenium arch frontispiece decoration of two neo-classical sculptural paintings, of a desolate looking woman dressed in a hooded & robed garment, with cherubs playing at her feet, her left arm resting on a column, on plinth with garland decoration, with a crossed dagger motif in the centre, on the right is a robed woman carrying a fish shaped vessel on her shoulder, holding a long thin spear in the other hand, also with playing cherubs at her feet, and with a garlanded plinth below. Above are garlands of flowers, cherubs, some with horns, with a Latin inscription at the top. All surrounding a plain grey centre.
Design for the frontispiece of Covent Garden Theatre, London; showing a proscenium arch frontispiece decoration of two neo-classical sculptural paintings, of a desolate looking woman dressed in a hooded & robed garment, with cherubs playing at her feet, her left arm resting on a column, on plinth with garland decoration, with a crossed dagger motif in the centre, on the right is a robed woman carrying a fish shaped vessel on her shoulder, holding a long thin spear in the other hand, also with playing cherubs at her feet, and with a garlanded plinth below. Above are garlands of flowers, cherubs, some with horns, with a Latin inscription at the top. All surrounding a plain grey centre.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour drawing depicting a design for a proscenium arch. Frontispiece designed by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, 1777. |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing depicting a design for a proscenium arch. |
| Credit line | Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Watercolour drawing depicting a design for a proscenium arch. Frontispiece designed by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, 1777. Design for the frontispiece of Covent Garden Theatre, London; showing a proscenium arch frontispiece decoration of two neo-classical sculptural paintings, of a desolate looking woman dressed in a hooded & robed garment, with cherubs playing at her feet, her left arm resting on a column, on plinth with garland decoration, with a crossed dagger motif in the centre, on the right is a robed woman carrying a fish shaped vessel on her shoulder, holding a long thin spear in the other hand, also with playing cherubs at her feet, and with a garlanded plinth below. Above are garlands of flowers, cherubs, some with horns, with a Latin inscription at the top. All surrounding a plain grey centre. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.24-1997 |
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| Record created | October 20, 2009 |
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