Elevation of a tower; fountains; staircase
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
name: label: Architect
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. -a: At left, two circular stories rise upon a dado. The lower one shows embedded columns and a dial in the central intercolumniation. On top is a high point upon a spiral rising from a low circular story of small width. Right row, -b,c: Minerva stands upon a circular pedestal on top. The water pours in -b from lions crouched radially upon a circular base; in -c from the jaws of stream gods, and from a lion which is tentatively suggested crouching upon a lower base.Verso: in opposite direction of -a/c, -d: two sections are sketched, one of them with inscribed measurements, and a plan with measurements. Calculations.
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 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: 1938-88-1768
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: Image: 27.6 x 20.2 cm (10 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)