Design for a Casino
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The building stands on a platform and has an aovoidal plan. Portico with four columns of Doric order, with a high attic; crouched figures flank an escutcheon on top. Two stories with great windows. Statues on an attic. Flights of stairs lead laterally at the front side to the platform. Fountains with water pouring from crouching lion flank their bottom parts. Obelisks rise at the landings. Two alternative suggestions are made for the elevation of the central section of the platform. More steps are suggested, leaving a panel in the center. One more fountain is shown at the left side. 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: 1938-88-1077
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, red ink on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.3 x 26.9 cm (7 5/8 x 10 9/16 in.)