Design for a Palace Gate
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal format. Steps are leading to an entrance pavilion giving access to a palace compound. Left and right of the pavilion is a wall made of bricks and stones. The pavilion is richly decorated with statues, reliefs, ornaments, and with pillars and columns in Corinthian style. Seen through the intercolumniation an obliquely placed garden terrace and part of the facade. The background is colored gray. Framing line and strip.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
- 1800–30
- Accession Number
- 1940-21-28
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and wash on light brown paper
- Dimensions
- 39.5 × 50.3 cm (15 9/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1940-21-28
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44d1737d1-15a3-4733-bb82-5b9804ece09e
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