Design for a Hemicycle, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
date: label: Date
content: 1753–63
name: label: Architect
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rocky landscape in front of building. Elevation of a one-story circular building decorated with pilasters, windows, and a central doorway which contains a fountain with two sphinxes. On lower level below fountain, a grotto with a standing female deity. Throughout the foreground, groups of men conversing. Cliff at left and center; building is in center of drawing behind cliff. Trees at right. Graphite borderline.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-2101
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, gray ink, brush and gray wash, graphite, on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.1 x 51 cm (13 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)