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Designer:
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809  Search this
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper
Dimensions:
Image: 15.2 x 14.7 cm (6 x 5 13/16 in.)
Type:
architecture
Drawing
Object Name:
Drawing
Made in:
Rome, Italy
Date:
1795
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
At left: a gateway leading to a house. The door is flanked by embedded Ionic columns and receding panels and pilasters. Above is a framed inscription tablet flanked by alternatively suggested motifs, an urn at left, a figure at right. Seated genii support a papal escutcheon, on top. Below, at right: a circular pavilion stands upon a rock from which water pours. Horses and mermen are shown upon lower laterally protruding parts of the rock. Part of a plan and a plan of a square structure are above, lines of a plan at the bottom. Part of a plan, crayon, covers the entire sheet.
Credit Line:
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Accession Number:
1938-88-1701
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
Data Source:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46c74cc1f-da23-4cf7-8b74-61bf76f8f206
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_1938-88-1701