Design for Ceiling Decoration, Four Allegorical Representations
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper row: at left, four boys with geometrical instruments. Framing lines at right and below. At right: a sitting bow, with a cornucopia. Beside him is a crouching lion. Framing lines. Lower row, at left: a boy sits beside a globe. He raises his right hand with a compass. Beside him are a cornucopia and an eagle. Framing lines except at left. At right: a boy sits upon the earth looking at the sheet with mathematical figures he holds with his right hand, and holding with his left hand the leash of a dog. Framing lines.
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: 1938-88-1877
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, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19.9 x 27.2 cm (7 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.)