Sketches for a Gateway for a Prison Erected by Pope Pius VI
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: Top right: an elevation. A rustic arch, the pilasters of which stand before wall panels, supports the entablature. The angular pediment topped by a Papal escutcheon before an attic. Flanking walls indicated. Bottom row: an elevation. Rustic doorway with a triangular pediment, topped by a high pedestal supporting a Papal escuthcheon. The door is flanked by couped cones with lanterns and domes on top. Sketches for the attic of the upper design. The left angle of the pediment. 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: 1938-88-1073
objectType: label: Type
content: graphic design
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, red ink on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.9 x 25.8 cm (8 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.)