Gateways to a prison
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top left: gaines of captives, shown in profile, support the entablature of the oblong opening. Pylons with lion masks project from the lateral wall panels. Straight entablature at right. The right half of a variation of a design, top left. The pylons are shaped differently; triglyph frieze; triangular pediment. Bottom left: an elevation of a similar design as at right. Bottom center: a left beveled top corner of the opening. Colored background.
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: 1938-88-1699
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: 20 x 22.5 cm (7 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)