Sketches for a Mausoleum
date: label: Date
content: 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top: a part of the plan of the central building. It is circular and has four porticos which are connected by galleries. It stands upon an ovoidal platform which is supported laterally by colonnades. Center: the elevation of the right part. Bottom: an elevation. The elevation is flanked by groups of trees. Porticos flank the staircases. The remaining parts of the wall of the platform are decorated with moldings. The upper platform stands upon a lower one, having pyramids at the corners. Accounts written vertically. A figure is the the right bottom corner.
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: 1938-88-1159
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: 17.3 x 27.5 cm (6 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)