Gateway and a fountain
date: label: Date
content: 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At left: a gateway leading to a house. The door is flanked by embedded Ionic columns and receding panels and pilasters. Above is a framed inscription tablet flanked by alternatively suggested motifs, an urn at left, a figure at right. Seated genii support a papal escutcheon, on top. Below, at right: a circular pavilion stands upon a rock from which water pours. Horses and mermen are shown upon lower laterally protruding parts of the rock. Part of a plan and a plan of a square structure are above, lines of a plan at the bottom. Part of a plan, crayon, covers the entire sheet.
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: 1938-88-1701
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, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 15.2 x 14.7 cm (6 x 5 13/16 in.)