Chairs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At left is a chair, seen from the front, the frame of a seat and the leg at right being now drawn. The back has a frame shaped like a lyre; the panel with trellis-like straw-plaiting. At right is a sketch of the left upper part of the frame, of the foot (?) and of the corner of the frame of the seat. Caption: "Sedia per la Cammera / nuova". Below, at left, in graphite: a profile. Below is a scroll with a foot.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-2045
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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 chalk, red ink on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 22.4 x 18 cm (8 13/16 x 7 1/16 in.)