Object Details
- Circle of
- Etienne-Louis Boullée, French, 1728–1799
- Description
- Steps lead to a platform with seated warriors at the corners, more steps lead to the colonnade surrounding the bottom part of a circular temple. The top of the wall at the rear of the colonnade is surrounded by a frieze. Steps rise over the entablature upon which a tambour supports a dome. Festoons connect bull's eyes in the tambour. A group of figures supporting an eye sphere is shown on a pedestal at the front side of the dome.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- ca. 1790
- Accession Number
- 1911-28-463
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, blue watercolor, graphite on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 20.8 x 42.1 cm (8 3/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
- designed in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1911-28-463
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4fd1922c2-cd78-4876-b0be-2cde6a372835
