Five designs for an overdoor
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: Upper row: at left, a pedestal of a kind stands upon the upper part of the door frame. It has at the front on ovoidal medallion with a figure, and on top the tiara upon the crossed keys. Center: the escutcheon stands upon a base, upon which garlands drag. On top are the keys and the tiara in front of a volute pediment. At right: a similar escutcheon stands in front of a couch upon a base of several moldings. Lower row: at left, the escutcheon is in front of an obliquely shown pedestal upon which an enormous helmet st ands. At right: above an entablature stands a pedestal with an escutcheon similar to the upper ones being in the panel of the front. This design, as those above it, has been partly drawn over a pen sketch for the design above at left.
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: 1938-88-1818
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19.1 x 27.3 cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)