Gateway of a villa
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: Left row: above, between wall and a two-winged gate, both outlined, is a tripartite pedestal with a column between two figures. Above stands a vase with flowers. Below, rough sketch of the left side of an elevation with the scheme of pylons, laterally, and figures upon pedestals between the curved gates. Right row, above: two figures of the same height as the curved gate they flank. Caption: "quatro formi". Center, at right: one rough sketch for the motif of the figures in 1938-88-1715. Below, detail: one of these figures and the upper panel of the gate. A faun gripping the bars below the points. It is flanked by wo oblongs with a lozenge ornament. Below the points, a frieze in the panel of the gate. In the center, the bars have knobs. Only part of the background of the top left row is colored.
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: 1938-88-1714
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 20.2 x 27.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)