Elevation for a Public Building
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A portico with eights columns, standing upon a basement and supporting a triangular pediment, is in the center. Two flights of stairs lead to it. They have behind them short curved sides of the two wings. These show at the front three stories of five bays. Doorways are in the centers of the ground floor. A dome rises behind the pediment of the portico. Top left: Section of the central domed hall.
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: 1938-88-1115
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: 19.8 x 26.7 cm (7 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.)