Object Details
- Artist
- Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Elevation and plan of a large scale horizontal structure, an elaborate fountain. The upper portion of the drawing depicts the elevation. The large central archway (exedra) is embraced on either side by a colonnade (with Ionic capitals) and smaller archways (exedrae). Sculptural decorations are positioned above all three exedrae. The water pours from the arched openings in the dados of the colonnades and the lateral exedrae. An outline of distant hill behind the elevation.
- The plan is located below the elevation (lower portion of the sheet). The left portion of the plan is rendered with pen and ink while the right portion is sketched with pencil.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1800
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-7171
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper, lined
- Dimensions
- 30.2 x 47.4 cm (11 7/8 x 18 11/16 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_1938-88-7171
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e8f519c9-659f-4819-916b-aa8d32854762
