Design for a Frieze: "Time"
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The left half. The central motif is the frame of an escutcheon. From it, below, springs a rinceau with two spirals, the first one framing a skull. The frame of the right half is outlined and the height and width of the right half are indicated. Inside, a nude figure is drawn, seen from the back. Caption: "Età che caca / in faccio alla Morte". On top strokes and part of a motif belonging to sketches.
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: 1938-88-1886
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, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 11 x 27.2 cm (4 5/16 x 10 11/16 in.)