Sketches, a Fountain
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- In the center is a circular pedestal with a square band around, above three steps. Above it is a calyx from which the water springs. Segments of bowls are projecting from the upper basin on each side; in that at the front are laterally two more calyces with springing water. The basin stands upon three steps. Nothing is indicated about the lower basin.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1790
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-1763
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.1 x 27.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
- made in
- Rome, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-1763
