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Personification of America

Cooper Hewitt

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    Object Details

    Artist

    Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757

    Catalogue Status

    Research in Progress

    Description

    Bust length portrait of a woman, her left breast exposed, and carrying a spear in her right hand. In her hair is a jeweled fillet, trimmed with feathers, and in her right ear she wears a lozenge-shaped jeweled pendant earring. On her back she carries a quiver of arrows. Her head is inclined slightly to the left and turned directly toward the viewer.

    Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde

    Date

    before 1720

    Accession Number

    1960-1-7-d

    Restrictions & Rights

    CC0

    Type

    portraits

    Object Name

    Drawing

    Type

    Drawing

    Medium

    Pastel on paper mounted on canvas

    Dimensions

    43.5 x 34 cm (17 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
    Frame H x W x D: 57.2 × 48.3 × 5.1 cm (22 1/2 in. × 19 in. × 2 in.)

    made in

    Italy

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq412b2165b-4575-40b4-92ba-15b661c7c8e1

    Record ID

    chndm_1960-1-7-d

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