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GIULIO ROMANO. Design for a Boat-Shaped Vessel, possibly intended as a Festival Float

GIULIO ROMANO. A ship-shaped bowl, supported by two mermaids, is surmounted upon a base representing the sea. The bowl is flanked by two high columns with mermaid finials connected to each other by a pole entwined with ribbon. Traces of framing lines are visible at the edges of the sketch. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper. Date: 1533.

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Author: Giulio Romano (c. 1499-1546)

Title: Design for a Boat-Shaped Vessel, possibly intended as a Festival Float

Caption: A ship-shaped bowl, supported by two mermaids, is surmounted upon a base representing the sea. The bowl is flanked by two high columns with mermaid finials connected to each other by a pole entwined with ribbon. Traces of framing lines are visible at the edges of the sketch. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper. Date: 1533.

Technique/material: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper

Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Credit: Abum

Image size: 2608 × 3075 px | 22.9 MB

Print size: 22.1 × 26.0 cm | 1026.8 × 1210.6 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM • DRAWING • PEN AND BROWN INK, BRUSH AND BROWN WASH, BLACK CHALK ON OFF-WHITE LAID PAPER