Design for a Bedroom Alcove
date: label: Date
content: ca, 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A variation of -1638, above. The gaines - figures springing from bunches standing upon short columns - are nearer to the walls than to each other. The vaulted lower part of the ceiling has triangular compartments, the upper decorated with festoons and a medallion, the lower with what possibly is a sphinx crouching upon a high pedestal with figures, and two figures sitting beside. Unusual background.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1603
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 14.3 x 19.9 cm (5 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.)