Stuart Monument
date: label: Date
content: 1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Intended for an intercolumniation between two embedded columns, and in a niche. Between the capitals is a frieze with an escutcheon supported by two flying putti, in front of drapery festoons. Below is a stereobate. The monument has below a pedestal with a high base, and a panel with a relief of figures. Above it stand two female allegories, leaning against the sarcophagus, which has the general shape of an urn upon a high base. Upon the cover kneel, at left a winged putti, in the center a putto and support the oval medallion with a bust portrait, sided by another putto, flying at right. Both putti support with their left hands the crown at top.
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: 1938-88-1339
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 on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.2 x 16.5 cm (10 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.)