Design for a Tabernacle and a Baptismal Font
date: label: Date
content: 1746-1809
name: label: Architect
content: Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839
label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upon steps, stands the tabernacle, shaped like a circular temple, with six columns supporting the entablature, and a door in the wall. Above are moldings, a drum, and a dome with a figure on top. At the foot of the dome stand six hermae or figures, and others similar to them, connected by some object hanging semicircularly. At the right end of the steps is a part of a bowl, with the indication of its height. Colored background.
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: 1938-88-1389
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: 18.3 x 25 cm (7 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)