Design for a Fountain
Object Details
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A wide basin is shown superimposed over a landscape view of rugged countryside below slight clouds; the depiction of the basin as in 1901-39-405. Inside the wide basin is another one, at center, consisting of a bowl supported by a circle of bulls. Birds sit on the rim of the inner bowl, water flowing from their beaks. On the reverse: light pencil sketch of a fountain.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- 1795
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-406
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Black crayon, brush and sepia, grey, blue, black watercolor, on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 45.2 x 29.5 cm (17 13/16 x 11 5/8 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_1901-39-406
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48c2db435-3f41-4cfb-b930-8caa42503d58
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