Public Building
date: label: Date
content: 1780–90
name: label: Architect
content: Planier, French, 1800 – 1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Elevation of a large horizontal building. Entrances are in domed pavilions at either end of the building. Attributes of the Arts are shown in triangular pediments above the entrances. Four statues of allegorical women flanking the entrances represent possibly the Muses. The pavilions are connected by a colonnade of embedded Doric columns and a short top story. In each interval (between the columns) are a two-story window and a regular window. Circular windows are placed at the basement level, below the colonnade. Below the rendering are the rule "12 Toises" and the scale "48 modules." Inscription on verso.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-397
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 black ink, brush and gray and blue wash, over black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.1 x 54.3 cm (9 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.)