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Design for a Door Case

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
A variation of 1939-88-1693, the proportions stressing the width. The overdoor consists of the medallion with two lateral motifs; it does not reach into the coffered part. All the needed dimensions are indicated. The height, from the floor is "18 3/4", from the upper end of the lower from of the dado, "17 5/6"; at the upper edge are two accountings, horizontally written.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
Date
1789–1793
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Dimensions
Image: 25.8 x 19.3 cm (10 3/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Type
architecture
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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