Triumphal arch
Object Details
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The arch rises from two barges. Corinthian columns support the entablature. Above stands a pedestal upon steps. Statues stand at the corners of teh lowest one. On top is a group. The complicated plan of the basin is incompletely shown. Rostral columns stand at its corners which are flanking the arch. Houses at the square surrounding the basin and of a street are shown in the background.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1800-1805
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-1194
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on blue-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 21.4 × 34.4 cm (8 7/16 × 13 9/16 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_1938-88-1194
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c520c642-7e30-44ab-9310-bda68151d126
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