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Angel in Red

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1900-1940

GUSN

GUSN-254973

Description

Depicts angel dressed in red, playing a brass horn. Hand colored print in 16th century Italian style on gold paper. Gilt rectangular frame with pointed steeple top. Steeple decorated with applied scrolled leaf-like ornament; pointed arch, glazed enframement of print flanked by two freestanding twisted columns, bracket scrolls under plinths.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pictures (two-dimensional representations)
Picture

Additional Identification Number

208.1981.1

Maker

Unknown

Accession Number

1999.413.1

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