Design for the Elevation of a Public Building
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal format architectural drawing. Somewhat more than the left half of the building is shown. Basement with several doors. Ground floor accessible through two doors to which flights of stairs lead. A correction at the stairs at left. Second floor. Attic over the central and the lateral parts of the main body of the building, which is to be flanked by aisles of three bays with mezzanine floors. Base lines. Bottom: oblong. Framing lines. Lines along top, bottom edges.
place: label: made in
content: 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 from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-29
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 black ink on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.5 × 51.4 cm (14 × 20 1/4 in.)