Design for a Tabernacle
Object Details
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The upper central part of the altar ledge is shown with the door for the receptacle for the host. Above rises in front of a tent-like baldachin a half-circular colonnade with a dome. Inside is a monstance in a glory; below are two cherubim. Colored background.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1790
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-1382
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.4 x 18.1 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/8 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_1938-88-1382
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq475e1690c-ff83-4993-a7ad-14fae129a2ea
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