Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions
Object Details
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- At left, the lower right side is shown. The fireplace is flanked by a receding pair of Ionic columns, with a statue standing in the intercolumnium. Festoons decorate the frieze, in the center of which is a projecting oblong relief. A looking-glass stands above. A candlestick for three candles stands in front of the flanking pilaster s tripe. It consist of an urn rising between two seated figures. Measurements are indicated at right. The right side of the looking-glass is shown. A plant rising from an urn decorates the pilaster. On top is a molding supported by genii. Colored background.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1746–1809
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-1677
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- Image: 18.7 x 26.6 cm (7 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
- made in
- Rome, 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_1938-88-1677
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44da6298a-3799-4510-9241-b1668e0d4a45
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