Fountains
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: A circular pavilion stands in the center of the basin into which water pours from the mouths of two lions upon pedestals. The wall of the pavilion consists of trellis work and statues standing upon a dado between the columns. The lion, left, is drawn over part of preparatory sketch of the pavilion. The background is colored. On verso: top row, left: a sketch resembling a spade. Second row: sketch for a colonnade and two sketches of pavilions (probably cafeauses). A fountain with a column and two figures, recumbent, beside it. Part of a lion upon a pedestal. Third row: two plans. A colonnade above which a statue of Hercules rises. Two sketches for the pedestal and the colonnade. Bottom row: an obelisk rising from a colonnade. A colonnade. A figure. Part of a plan. Some writing in ink, vertically: "Sige", ibn the upper right corner: "Per que…" "Dirò due cose (?)."
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: 1938-88-1756
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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: 16.7 x 22.4 cm (6 9/16 x 8 13/16 in.)