Drawing for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)
Object Details
- Follower of
- Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian, 1744 - 1817
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Section of a round building. A central, domed hall is surrounded by corridors. Porticos are at left and at right. From the latter, a staircase leads down to subterranean rooms. A big sepulchral monument stands in the center. Other monuments are in the main hall and the corridors. Funerary urns stand in the niches in the basement.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1820
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-3849
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, blue, pink and yellow watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.6 x 48.2 cm (12 13/16 x 19 in.)
- (matted with -3848)
- 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_1938-88-3849
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d59ce3b4-afde-4505-bf8c-77d27eaff8c3
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