Design for a Double Door and Overdoor
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: With the right door folding. It has above and below a high rectangular panel, the upper one with the representation of the figure of a standing woman, the lower one with a hermae, both in the center of scrolls. A small oval representation, framed above by festoons, is in the interval. The overdoor consists of an oblong, divided into a central lozenge, with the figure of a standing woman and four pentagons. The lateral frame consists, at right, of a pilaster with a stem of leaves springing from a vase, and a capital with an oval medallion, at left of a fluted gaine in front of a band. On top the cornices of an entablature. The wall 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: 1938-88-1661
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, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 27.3 x 16.5 cm (10 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)