Designs for Bedroom Alcove Walls
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The alcove has the shape of a broad niche with a spherical ceiling above the entablature. A main entrance and two lateral secondary ones are suggested. Above: a variation of -1604 below. The arch is framed by moldings and by panels, framed outwards by moldings. On top is a keystone and a garland. The lateral parts of the wall are receding. On top is a bust, upon a pedestal. Spheres are in the places of vases. Below: the central entrance is framed by two columns supporting an entablature. Curtains, held up. On top is a pedestal with a putto, sitting, with a pair of scales upon his shoulders. Two spheres are at the corners. The left of the lateral parts corresponds generally to -1604 above, the right to -1604 below. Colored background.
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: 1938-88-1605
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 laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 27.6 x 17.4 cm (10 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.)