Carriage Approaching Villa
date: label: Date
content: 1755–60
name: label: Designer
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. In the foreground in pen and ink a road with a carriage and figures, riding in carriage or on horseback and walking throughout grounds. Road leads to a three story building, drawn in graphite. Trees at right and left surrounded by garden hedges. The building, with a projecting central section and two side wings, is decorated with pilasters and windows with arches or triangular pediments. A large rondel with decorative framing elements is on the roof.
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: 1938-88-487
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, gray washes, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 20.8 × 28.5 cm (8 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.)