Section 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: Section of a villa. Three levels are indicated. There are rooms in the basement, with stairs leading to them. They are in the corners and originate from the inner octagonal plan of the central room. In the oblique openings are statues, standing. The central room and the rooms in the wings are not separated by walls. There are no walls between the rooms in the wings and the squares. Ionic columns support the entablatures. The cupola is decorated with painted garlands and peacocks.
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: 1938-88-7168
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: 36.7 x 51 cm (14 7/16 x 20 1/16 in.)