Minerva, drawing by Felice Giani (1804)
A brown ink and wash drawing shows a helmeted, classically draped female figure reclining beside a large oval tablet inscribed with lines of text. An open book and a perched owl rest on a circular-decorated pedestal at right, and the figure's cloak sweeps across the lower foreground.
- Artist
- Felice Giani
- Date
- 1804
- Medium
- Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
- Source
- Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
- Size
- 4000 × 2432 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1804).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum