Design for the Decoration of a Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Below is a pedestal with steps, between crouching lions leading to it. Upon it stand four high gaines supporting the oblong frame of a landscape having the width fo the panel. The gaines are above half-figures with raised arms, and connected by festoons. In the central interval stands a female statue with fasces beside. In the lateral intervals are oval medallions with busts, with female half-figures as a crest. Above the frame are women in front and in the center of three arches formed by garlands, with scrolls and two standing winged putti on top. Laterally and below is the usual 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: 1938-88-1441
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
label: Dimensions
content: 24.8 x 11 cm (9 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.)