Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper row: the Ionic columns support an entablature and a dome in front of a niche of the wall. At right: a variation of the same motif, with the entire wall forming a niche which is decorated with a drapery. Lower row: at right a variation of the last motif, the niche being decorated with stems forming arches and being outside framed by panels. At left, two gaines support the entablature of the canopy. The wall is straight below the entablature, cured like a niche above it, and decorated with a drapery. On top of the canopy are festoons. All projects with curtains. Backgrounds as -1638.
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: 1938-88-1639
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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 off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 28.4 x 20.2 cm (11 3/16 x 7 15/16 in.)