Drawing, Design for the North Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, 1755–56 (CH 18114345-6)

The doorway is flanked by two pilasters with dolphins supporting festoons at capitals. An entablature with a frieze and a semi-circular window aboveit are outlined at the top of the drawing. Above doorway molding is a classical frieze with a scene of sacrifice. Seated griffins appear on either side of the frieze. Above this is a lower entablature surmounted byan eagle. Several people and two dogs stand in and around the doorway