Design for an Organ
date: label: Date
content: 1780-1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Below is a socle with three panels. The lateral compartments are framed rectangularly; the central, higher one has above pieces of the wall and the conch of a niche. Beside the conch are parts of the support of the triangular pediment, with festoons hanging from the keystone upon the lower ends. In the pediment is a shell, on top a star. In front of the pipes, in the center, are scrolls beside a mask and a flower basket, laterally crossed branches. Usual background.
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: 1938-88-1359
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 laid
label: Dimensions
content: 25.4 x 15.8 cm (10 x 6 1/4 in.)