Project for a Fountain
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Artist
content: Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Elevation and plan of a large scale horizontal structure, an elaborate fountain. The upper portion of the drawing depicts the elevation. The large central archway (exedra) is embraced on either side by a colonnade (with Ionic capitals) and smaller archways (exedrae). Sculptural decorations are positioned above all three exedrae. The water pours from the arched openings in the dados of the colonnades and the lateral exedrae. An outline of distant hill behind the elevation.
label: Description
content: The plan is located below the elevation (lower portion of the sheet). The left portion of the plan is rendered with pen and ink while the right portion is sketched with pencil.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-7171
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 black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 x 47.4 cm (11 7/8 x 18 11/16 in.)