Design for an Altar Frontal; Verso: Elevation of a Folding Door
date: label: Date
content: 1775–1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown as far as necessary. An ovoidal representation of Christ washing the feet of St. Peter in an escutcheon. Sections of molding of a base and an entablature print. Accounts in pencil. Scribbling, ink. Verso: horizontally: East wing is subdivided in five panels. At right two architectural sketches. Accounts, ink, pencil.
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: 1938-88-1673
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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 off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 17.7 x 24 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)