Doorway for a town mansion
date: label: Date
content: 1786
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Executed is the left half. Rustic work. Above is an escutcheon. The opening is, above, hemi-circular. Inscription: "DOMVS", and indistinctly, at right: TRINIB (?). Inscribed dimensions. A plan is below. Caption at right: "portone p[er] il Palas / so abbotato dalla / Msa Girolama Lepi, quale si dovette slongare / perche il Tirrone / di Mge depriere / non ci copea / Lvgli (luglio) 1786/Mg [monsignore] Ruffo / allora Tesore / re", and some accounting.
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: 1938-88-1717
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, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.9 x 19.8 cm (10 9/16 x 7 13/16 in.)