Design for Stuart Monument
date: label: Date
content: 1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The scheme and the sarcophagus are variations of 1938-88-1296. The design begins below with the sarcophagus. The pedestal has a base, above which rise three steps and a short pedestal on top. Upon the steps sit two crowned women, the left carrying a shield or a medallion and a mace, the right one something indistinct. Beside the left lie fasces beside the right, probably a helmet. On top kneels the king with extended arms upon a cushion, seen from the front. Over the figure is partly drawn another suggestion: a kneeling winged genius at left supports together with a standing putto at right the oval medallion. The putto carries in his left hand a laurel branch. On top is the upper part of a dlying putto supporting the crown with his raised hands. The framing parts of the columns are sketched.
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: 1938-88-1345
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: 27.2 x 20.3 cm (10 11/16 x 8 in.)