Two Designs for Altar Cross Bases; verso, Designs for Five Projects, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on heavy cream laid paper, Depicted on recto: two bases for altar crosses (only right half of each is shown). On the LEFT, a base formed by a pedestal resting on lion feet; the lower part of pedestal is bossed (gadrooned); the front decorated with a tablet and festoon which is held by an angel standing at the corner: above another 'pedestal' supporting a vase decorated with bosses (below) and a row of cherubim (above); at the top of the ink-drawn base, two seated angels


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