Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Upper row: at left, four boys with geometrical instruments. Framing lines at right and below. At right: a sitting bow, with a cornucopia. Beside him is a crouching lion. Framing lines. Lower row, at left: a boy sits beside a globe. He raises his right hand with a compass. Beside him are a cornucopia and an eagle. Framing lines except at left. At right: a boy sits upon the earth looking at the sheet with mathematical figures he holds with his right hand, and holding with his left hand the leash of a dog. Framing lines.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- ca. 1775
- 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: 19.9 x 27.2 cm (7 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
