Design for a Monument
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Obliquely shown from the left front corner. Three steps lead up to a square base of two sections. A circular pedetal stands upon it. It is shaped like a lower part of a fluted column and is surrounded by a band with a relief representing a sacrifice. On top is a woman, similar to that in 1938-88-1274, seated upon a crouching lion. The left hand lies upon his head. The stone parts which are connected by a bar are shown in front of the right side. 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: 1938-88-1277
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, graphite on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 7/8 x 8 in.)