Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)
Object Details
- Follower of
- Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian, 1744 - 1817
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a round building. A circular, domed structure without other windows than a skylight at the center of the dome. The building has a Corinthian portico. It is flanked on either side by short pergolas and sepulchral monuments; cloudy sky is given as the background.
- Scale: in pen and black ink, lower margin
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1820
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-3848
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, blue, green and yellow watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.6 x 48.3 cm (12 13/16 x 19 in.)
- matted with -3849
- Mat: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 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_1938-88-3848
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46d6dba2d-d7a8-489d-ab59-5f867e89f13d
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