Elevation of a Town Mansion
date: label: Date
content: 1750-1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown is the left side. The central part is projecting. It shows three stories. The two lower ones are framed by columns of a Doric order and an entablature. At the corners are pairs of columns. The three central bays of the ground floor are bordered by the arches of a colonnade with a baulstrade below. The lateral bays have door openings. Windows in oblong panels are in the second story. In the third story are windows in wall panels, bordered by columns or pilasters. The lateral side at left shows five stories. The ground floor has a colonnade of three bays in front. The upper stories have three windows each. The entablatures above the ground floor and above the second floor of the central part are continual. The upper one separates the windows of the third and fourth stories. At the upper edges is a part of a sketch. Verso: part of a sketch of an elevation and of a plan.
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: 1938-88-1153
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
label: Dimensions
content: 14.5 x 28.5 cm (5 11/16 x 11 1/4 in.)