Elevation of a Country Villa
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Architect
content: Unknown, Italian
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Elevation of a free standing villa. The central part of the building has two stories, the upper one being octagonal. Steps are leading to a porch with two Ionic columns. In the flanking walls is a window and a frieze above it; another one above the door. Two narrow receding wings project from the walls, each is decorated with a niche occupied by a statue and a frieze. Additional two statues are standing beside the front window in the upper floor. At the ground level, at both ends, are somewhat more receding terraces with a balustrade and a fountain, supported by swans standing in a basin as the concluding motif. The building is elevated on a mass of land
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-7167
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 black ink, brush and rose, brown and blue watercolor, black wash, with black chalk indications on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 38 x 51.3 cm (14 15/16 x 20 3/16 in.)