Four Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper row: at left, a tent, the pointed roof of which is in front of a kind of shell which is laterally framed by feathers. At right, a tent with a high pointed roof, behind which the wall forms a niche which has above the entablature the shape of the upper half of a quatrefoil, with drapery hanging from the upper corners in front of the roof. Lower row: at left, a variation of the last motif, without the drapery. Bunches of flowers frame the lower part of the quatrefoil. At right, a tent with a pointed roof above an entablature and with feathers on top. Behind the roof is a niche, beside which the wall is decorated with a pillar and a figure in a triangle. Only the lowest parts of the posts in all the projects are not covered by curtains.
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: 1938-88-1641
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
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 27.4 x 19.9 cm (10 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)