Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- At left: A couped obelisk rises from a sarcophagus which stands upon a circular pedestal, surrounded by a band with relief figures. Center: A couped obelisk rises from a sarcophagus which is supported by two crouching lions. At right animals crouch radially upon a circular pedestal with a relief band. An urn rises in the center. Intended, as evidently others tho, to stand at the corners of a platform, the wall being shown. Colored background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- 1746-1809
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 14.5 x 21.1 cm (5 11/16 x 8 5/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
