Mausoleum for family of Alexander the Great
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: Distant angle view of the enormous precinct, in which the domed mausoleum stands in a square, the corners of which are marked by pyramids. Figures on foot, on horseback, and beside a camel are in the left nearer distance. In the left foreground stands a dog (?) with his forefeet on a casket. Written there: "Or (?) debbito che mi / da addezzo / Sengo il Grande / e non o quatrini / p[er] Mangiare". Caption under the architecture: "Cappella Sepolcrale p[er] la Fameglia delli Cgni[aro]gni P[resen]ti". Underneath a part of an architectural plan, in graphite, "belonged originally to…".
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: 1938-88-1178
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 15.2 x 39.1 cm (6 x 15 3/8 in.)