Four Sketches for Fountains
date: label: Date
content: 1746–1809
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Left row: above, the water springs from a basin which is supported by birds, from whose mouths water pours. Below is a sketch in greater scale of the birds and the basin. Above at right, the upper part of a pedestal with two standing, female figures raising a calyx of a kind from which water springs. At right, the same group stands in the center of a basin. Water pours from the pedestal and springs from a circle of indistinct figures.
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: 1938-88-1770
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19.8 x 22.4 cm (7 13/16 x 8 13/16 in.)