Sepulchral monuments
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The main design represents the elevation of a monument with a high pedestal. Its lower part is quadrangular with obliquely protruding bases with figures at the corners. The upper part of the pedestal has the shape of a lower part of a column in bands upon the two drums of which figures are represented. On the top sits what seemingly is an old man holding a portrait medallion. Beside at left and partly drawn over the figure at left is the elevation of a similar monument, but with an entire column with a standing figure on top. A sarcophagus stands at the front of the pedestal. A plan of this monument is between this and the first mentioned designs. Above at left is a design with a similar column, but the pedestal has the shape of a sepulchral chapel with the figures sitting upon it. Below are steps and shown at left is a candelabrum. Above in the center is a plan. Above at right is the left side of the elevation of a sepulchral chapel. Below it is a pedestal with steps, upon which figures sit at the corners. Above the steps stand a sarcophagus, having on top clouds upon which a figure stands.
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: 1938-88-1279
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 x 20 cm (10 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)