Designs and Sketches for a Mausoleum
date: label: Date
content: 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A pyramid contains the octagonal sepulchral chamber which is accessible through four corridors. These project from the pyramid, as is shown in a sketch of the elevation, and in a section, above, at left. They do not project in a sketched plan, below, at left, and in a plan showing double colonnades surrounding the pyramid on three sides, center top. Center: an elevation. A Doric colonnade with statues upon a parapet, borders the platform which is reached by stairs, flanked by parapets with altars. Above at right: an elevation. A colonnade with pavilions at the corners surrounds the pyramid. Slightly colored 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: 1938-88-1158
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, red ink on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.8 x 27.5 cm (7 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)