Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Below are steps, which in the upper half are flanked by the bases of two groups, either consisteing of a standing woman leaning her right hand upon fasces, and a putto beside her. The pedestal is high and elaborate. Its lower part has a panel with the inscription in the main part of central most projecting part. Above the entablature are rectangular blocks, upon which sit at the front two putti, carrying respectively mitre and crozier, at he sides one putto. Behind them rises a round pedestal with festoons, on top a variation of 1938-88-1396.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- 1793
- 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
- 27.6 x 20.3 cm (10 7/8 x 8 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
