Design for a Sarcophagus
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Something more than the left half is shown. Below is a base with a crouching lion and a moulding having a festoon in front, serving as supports. The sarcophagus has the general shape of an entablature. The lower part of the body is decorated with a row of leaves and with a female mask. A tablet is in the middle. In the middle of the corner is a colute pediment with a mask inside. A figure sits laterally upon it, whose head is not shown. 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: 1938-88-1397
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: 18.6 x 15.4 cm (7 5/16 x 6 1/16 in.)