Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Steps, leading up to a platform, are bordered laterally by pairs of figures lying or leaning against some object, and by bowls with fires, standing upon four legs. In the center rises a high pedestal with a relief in its front panel and with figures standing upon the entablature. A sarcophagus is on top from which an obelisk rises, having a medallion portrait at the front and a knob as a point. Slightly colored background. Some lines are drawn over an unfinished sketch of a plan.
- 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, red ink on lined off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.9 x 22.8 cm (7 13/16 x 9 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
