Elevation of a Town Mansion
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Wings of three bays and three stories each are connected by a central section having two stories. Eight embedded Doric columns support an entablature. A balustrade with statues on top. A door is in the center of the central section of the ground floor. Laterally are arched openings with railings in the bottom parts. Windows are in the top story. A lantern, pierced by windows, and a dome are in the rear. The wings have doors in the centers of the ground floors. The right wing is not entirely shown. Measurements indicated. Bottom left, thr rough pen sketch of the head of a woman.
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: 1938-88-1060
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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 lined off-white paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.4 x 27.9 cm (8 1/16 x 11 in.)