Fantasy of an Architectural Ruin
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Henry-Alexandre Pernet, French, ca.1763 – ca.1790
notes: label: Description
content: Antique sepulchers and ruins with figures in the foreground are presented in an oval format. A stairway leads to a triumphal arch at right, adjacent to a column. In the distance at left, architectural forms incorporating arches balance the composition. Ruled lines in pen and ink.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-243
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 black, brown wash, watercolor, white gouache graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.8 x 14.7 cm (7 x 5 13/16 in.)