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Drawing, Egyptian Antiquities

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Romolo Achille Liverani and after Alessandro Sanquirico. It is dated 1832 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

A blue and turquoise cylindrical, baton-shaped object is placed next to a rectangular case at a diagonal angle, both with similar decorative elements. The cylinder is a royal blue lapis lazuli case with gold rings on each end. The flat bottom end is composed of a wheel of inlaid turquoise, with a smaller gold ring framing a lapis lazuli round. The adjacent rectangular case is decorated with the lapis lazuli on each side, and a diagonally cross-hatched inlaid turquoise center panel. The turquoise reveals darker speckles along the top surface. The case is accented with vertical and horizontal gold lines, and highlighted with a small, rectangular latch of a french-cut diamond framed on each side with cut sapphires. A slightly blurred reflection of each object mirrors the objects on the white surface.

Cigarette Case And Lipstick Baton, ca. 1929
inlaid turquoise, lapis lazuli, diamonds, cut sapphires, gold.
Lent by Private Collection.
13.2016.49

A print cover of Wendigen magazine. On the left side is a multifaced totem pole; the rest of the cover is a meandering or 'Greek Key' pattern and in silhouette the Great Sphinx of Giza on brown aged paper.

Book, Wendingen: maandblad voor bouwen en sieren, Vol. 1, No. 2
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, N5 .W469.
89.2016.9

Its dimensions are

H x W: 20.6 × 32.3 cm (8 1/8 × 12 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: lily

It is inscribed

Inscribed, upper right corner: 30; verso: Atrio nel Palazzo di Dogi in Venezia, Opera Otella, atto 1 / in distanza la piazza di San Marco; in Liverani's hand: Sanquirico Invento ed esposte al Teatro della Scala in Milano avendovi io pure lavorato [inscription refers to 1938-88-256]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Egyptian Antiquities; Designed by Romolo Achille Liverani (Italian, 1809 - 1872); After Alessandro Sanquirico (Italian, 1777 - 1849); Italy; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper; H x W: 20.6 × 32.3 cm (8 1/8 × 12 11/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-468

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2D3w6/
Accession Number 1938-88-468
Object ID 18544113