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Drawing, Design for an architectural structure

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated ca. 1790 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

27.5 x 20.1 cm (10 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457e)

It is inscribed

Upper right: questo finale potra/ servire anche ad un/ caffeaus, ad una fonte/ battesima ad un Cibbo/rio, ad una Confesione (PDM'91)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an architectural structure; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper; 27.5 x 20.1 cm (10 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1200

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