Two Facades of a Public Building
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1840
name: label: Designer
content: Antonio Sarti, Italian, 1797 - 1880
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two elevations of long horizontal buildings. Positioned horizontally, one on top of the other; the bottom project suggests a greater length than the top one. The top project has a slightly projecting central section of nine bays and lateral sections of three bays each. The bottom project has a central section of seven bays and pairs of lateral sections of three bays each. In both buildings, the central sections show embedded fluted Doric columns supporting an entablature with triglyph friezes. In each intercolumnar space are a window and a relief depicting classical scenes. The lengths are inscribed in the bases of the buildings. A section, in graphite, beside the top design shows the top story as a sham one. Indication of scale in Palmi beneath each elevation and in lower margin
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-4164
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 black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 50.9 x 68.8 cm (20 1/16 x 27 1/16 in.)