Designs for Fountains; Verso: Blotter for a Black Crayon Drawing, Upper Part of a Design for a Pavilion Elevation
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto (-1809): Top left: a column with a figure on top rises between seated figures from a pavillion from which pedestals protrude radially. Upon the pedestals stand the figures of animals. Left center: a rostral column rises between figures from which water pours on top of a rock. A woman with a cross stands upon it. Right center: a tower stands in the center of a basin into which water pours from the pedestals of two statues. The stories are pavilion-like. Toward the top, they diminish in diameter and height. Right: a column with a figure rises from a tower-like pavilion of two stories. The left side of the ground floor is not shown. Bottom: two circular pavilions with statues standing in their centers. The left one with a cross. In the right design, water pours from two figures flanking the pavilion at the rim of the basin. Colored background. Verso (-18180): The base of the dome is decorated with festoons.
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: 1938-88-1809,1810
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, black ink on off-white laid paper, lined; verso: black crayon
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 27.2 x 20 cm (10 11/16 x 7 7/8 in.)