Designs for Bedroom Decorations
date: label: Date
content: 1746–1809
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top row, left: the elevation of the wall with the alcove. Curtains fill the upper part of the opening. Right: the left half of a similar elevation. Between a support, a caryatid upon a high plant and a wall panel is a narrow passage. Curtains hang on top of the openings. Bottom row, left: beside a sketched elevation of the back wall in the scheme of 1938-88-1508, is the similar elevation of the wall with the door. It is drawn over a part of a sketched scheme for the ceiling decoration. Right sketched section of the room showing the back wall with the alcove shaped as a niche.
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: 1938-88-1512
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: 19.8 x 27 cm (7 13/16 x 10 5/8 in.)