Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Follower of
content: Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian, 1744 - 1817
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a round building. A circular, domed structure without other windows than a skylight at the center of the dome. The building has a Corinthian portico. It is flanked on either side by short pergolas and sepulchral monuments; cloudy sky is given as the background.
label: Description
content: Scale: in pen and black ink, lower margin
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-3848
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 black ink, brush and gray wash, blue, green and yellow watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 32.6 x 48.3 cm (12 13/16 x 19 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: matted with -3849
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)