Design for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument
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: In the shape of a circular tower, with a figure on top. Below is a base of two steps. The bottom story is a colonnade with Doric columns before a back wall. Three steps are above it with female figures sitting upon the first one. The second story is like a pedestal with a band of figures aroudn the middle part of frieze. Above it are again three steps leading to another pedestal with festoons in the frieze. 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: 1938-88-1263
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.6 x 20.2 cm (10 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)