Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
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: Upper row: at left, a canopy supported by two Ionic columns with curtains. At right: another canopy, similar, without curtains. Central row: the entrance to the alcove is shaped like an arch, supported by two columns, laterally two open compartments with a straight entablature. Curtains are in each opening. The wall beside the arch is decorated with two flying figures. At right, the canopy is shaped like the front of a tent, with the wall above shaped as in -1693, below left. In the space between the two drawings is a sketched plan of the bedroom and, partly overdrawn by the right drawing, apparently of a house. Lower row: at left, a canopy supported by posts which are connected by pointed arches. Above is a dome over cornices, in front of a curved wall with a drapery. Curtains. At right the upper part of the canopy is a frieze, decorated with festoons and lambrequins. It is supported by two posts with capitals.
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: 1938-88-1640
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: 27.1 x 18.3 cm (10 11/16 x 7 3/16 in.)