Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments
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: Above: Elevation of a wall with a great niche in the center. In its stands a sarcophagus supported by two lions. Above it is a niche with a statue of a sitting person. The lower part of the wall has angular niches with statues; the upper part has ovoidal niches with busts. Steps lead to the protruding central parts. Above the entablature are laterally trophies of arms; in the middle, a pedestal with an escutcheon supported by two figures on top. Lower row, at left: the left sides of a quadrangular sarcophagus supported by a crouching griffon holding a disk with a multiple star. Beside it is the elevation of an angular niche having in front two columns. In front of the lateral walls are trophies. The sarcophagus stands at the back wall. On top is a high pedestal with a relief and the escutcheon as above. At right: the left side of a sarcophagus as at left supported by a crouching lion upon a vase. 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: 1938-88-1285
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 paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.1 x 20.2 cm (11 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.)