Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Left row: above, between wall and a two-winged gate, both outlined, is a tripartite pedestal with a column between two figures. Above stands a vase with flowers. Below, rough sketch of the left side of an elevation with the scheme of pylons, laterally, and figures upon pedestals between the curved gates. Right row, above: two figures of the same height as the curved gate they flank. Caption: "quatro formi". Center, at right: one rough sketch for the motif of the figures in 1938-88-1715. Below, detail: one of these figures and the upper panel of the gate. A faun gripping the bars below the points. It is flanked by wo oblongs with a lozenge ornament. Below the points, a frieze in the panel of the gate. In the center, the bars have knobs. Only part of the background of the top left row is colored.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- ca. 1790
- 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 off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.2 x 27.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
