Design for Mantelpieceand Adjoining Wall Friezes
date: label: Date
content: 1789
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The right half of the fireplace and the lower right corner of the looking-glass are shown. The frieze is decorated with festoons hanging beside an ovoidal medallion at right, with figures in the center. Brackets supporting the entablature separate the panels. Figures decorate the frieze at the wall. Reliefs for the mantelpiece in the Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri.
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: 1938-88-1678
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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: 12.1 x 8.2 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)