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Drawing, Design for a Kaffeehaus

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1789 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash 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

16.7 x 22.8 cm (6 9/16 x 9 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Upper right corner: "71" Upper right corner: caffeaus con quatro/ fontane che sibolzzano/ le quatro parti del Mondo (RB'45) (Coffee house with four fountains representing the four Continents.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Kaffeehaus; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper; 16.7 x 22.8 cm (6 9/16 x 9 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1097

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