Stage Design: Garden Scene with a Fountain, Part V, Plate 8, "Architettura e Prospettive," Augsburg

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object Details

Designer
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756
Engraver
Johann Andréas Pfeffel, German, 1674–1748
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Horizontal rectangle. Two figures in a garden scene with a fountaion surmounted by a statue of Neptune in the center of the stage, and three onion-domed arches behind, with landscape and architecture beyond.
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop
1740–44
Accession Number
1957-81-3
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
theater
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
Medium
Etching with engraving in black ink on white paper
Dimensions
Platemark: 34.1 × 51.1 cm (13 7/16 × 20 1/8 in.)
H x W: 37.5 × 53.2 cm (14 3/4 × 20 15/16 in.)
made in
Italy
published in
Augsburg, Germany
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Record ID
chndm_1957-81-3
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq455bd9c2c-e0cd-49df-bcdf-75b445ca21a6

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