Three tombs
date: label: Date
content: 1796
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper row, left. The architectural setting is similar to 1938-88-1298, right row, above. The scheme of the monument is a variation of 1938-88-1298, left row, below. The pedestal has two offsets, with a festoon in the upper one as the only decoration. Above it sit two female allegories. On top of the sarcophagus is a pedestal. Upon it a figure, standing, carrying a medallion together with a putto standing beside her, at right. At left, another putto, kneeling. At right: the architectureal setting is the usual intercolumniation with the entablature. In the upper part is a drapery with in front a medallion with a bust portrait, surrounded by branches and supported by two flying putti. Below is a pedestal with a relief. Sitting upon it, beside an urn, are two femal allegories. Lower row, horizontally. The architectural setting is similar to 1938-88-1296, with a niche similar to 1938-88-1350. The lower part is a variation of the upper row, at left, with a somewhat richer decorated pedestal and a trophy of arms on top. The upper part is a variation of 1938-88-1299, above, at left. The standing figure on top, a woman carrying a medallion. The sarcophagus is tube-like.
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: 1938-88-1253
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 x 20.1 cm (10 5/8 x 7 15/16 in.)