Design for a Doorcase
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: The door frame consists of moldings, with an entablature and a broken pediment with a central vase. Two children; the left one kneels, the right one upon cornices, recumbent. Outside are pillars, supporting the entablature of the overdoor, below which, in the center, a female head as a console from which festoons spring passing through consoles below the capitals of the pillars, continuing in the direction of the figures of the two children. The wall is colored.
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: 1938-88-1657
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 27.5 x 15.6 cm (10 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.)