Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The left half. The central motif is the frame of an escutcheon. From it, below, springs a rinceau with two spirals, the first one framing a skull. The frame of the right half is outlined and the height and width of the right half are indicated. Inside, a nude figure is drawn, seen from the back. Caption: "Età che caca / in faccio alla Morte". On top strokes and part of a motif belonging to sketches.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- 1780–1800
- 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: 11 x 27.2 cm (4 5/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
