Design for a Fountain
date: label: Date
content: 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A wide basin is shown superimposed over a landscape view of rugged countryside below slight clouds; the depiction of the basin as in 1901-39-405. Inside the wide basin is another one, at center, consisting of a bowl supported by a circle of bulls. Birds sit on the rim of the inner bowl, water flowing from their beaks. On the reverse: light pencil sketch of a fountain.
place: label: made in
content: 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-406
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, brush and sepia, grey, blue, black watercolor, on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 45.2 x 29.5 cm (17 13/16 x 11 5/8 in.)