Design for an Altar
date: label: Date
content: 1746-1809
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The sepulchrum in the shape of a sarcophagus, marked with "C", stands in the hollow "B" of the mensa. Beside are panels with a prelate's escutcheons; the left one is marked "B". The dividing console is twice marked "A". In the center of the altar furniture is the tabernacle, with the crucifix standing upon it. Beside it, at right, alternate three statuettes of saints with three candelabra. The mouldings of the furniture are marked at left from the bottom to the top: "A B C A D A".
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: 1938-88-1373
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, graphite on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 15.8 x 17 cm (6 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)