Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Recto, at left: two griffins support crouching a calyx from which leaf scrolls rise. Two become branches with a blossom as a socket with candle. Two more frame an oval medallion with a figure and support on top another socket with a third candle. At right: above is a sketch of a pedestal. Below are three candles, the outer being supported by the heads of two birds, in whose front the medallion stands. Verso: The mausoleum is supported by colonnades, in the shape of a Greek temple. Inside, a figure seems to be near a sarcophagus. The hall has pillars with arches and a vaulted ceiling, obliquely shown. Below at right, a sketch of the plan of cornices.
- 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 on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 25.2 x 19.9 cm (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
