Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
date: label: Date
content: 1790–1809
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper row: at left, behind the vaulted roof of a tent is a part of a frieze. Two parts are the supports. Center: a tent, supported by two posts with capitals, with a low roof. At right, three rectangular openings, separated by columns. On top is a frieze with the roof of a tent in front; on a smaller scale the beginning of a sketch. Lower row, at left: three rectangular openings, the supports being posts with capitals. Center: a variation of the motif of the front of the alcove as in -1643. On verso: one below the other, are two sketches for bases of columns.
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: 1938-88-1644
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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 off-white lined paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19.7 x 27.4 cm (7 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.)