Recto: candlesticks; Verso: mausoleum in a church-like hall
date: label: Date
content: 1789–1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto, at left: two griffins support crouching a calyx from which leaf scrolls rise. Two become branches with a blossom as a socket with candle. Two more frame an oval medallion with a figure and support on top another socket with a third candle. At right: above is a sketch of a pedestal. Below are three candles, the outer being supported by the heads of two birds, in whose front the medallion stands. Verso: The mausoleum is supported by colonnades, in the shape of a Greek temple. Inside, a figure seems to be near a sarcophagus. The hall has pillars with arches and a vaulted ceiling, obliquely shown. Below at right, a sketch of the plan of cornices.
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: 1938-88-2022
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
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 25.2 x 19.9 cm (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)