Design for Cast-iron Grate in Rococo Style with Putti Fire Dogs
ca. 1814
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and gray and light brown wash
Dimensions
sheet: 7 x 8 in. (17.8 x 20.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956
Accession Number
56.500.67(7)
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Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of Regency-era design Benjamin Dean Wyatt's *Design for Cast-ironate in Rococo Style Putti Fire Dogs*ca. 1814). Wyatt, a prominent English architect known for grand neoclassical projects like parts of London's Drury Lane Theatre, here turns his hand to intimate domestic ornament. Created during the Regency period—a time of elegant revivalism—this drawing proposes a cast-iron fireplace grate adorned with playful Rococo flourishes, blending 18th-century French exuberance with early 19th-century British practicality. Executed in pen and ink with subtle gray and ligh...