Drawing, Design for a Pavillion, 1789

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 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

19.7 x 26.8 cm (7 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Upper right corner: 72 Inscription: Caffeaus a quatro facciate, figvranddo le quatro parti del Mondo in quatro fonttane nelli qvatro/ mezzi e le quatro Ipolate (?), li quatro Elementi, Seggato di ricordo il di 31 Maggio che un/ mannico la robba p[er] Ceone che lo mandavo e coprato la a far la stadio del Palazzo, ed anche p[er]/ ricordo delli quatro premati, nel concorzo del di 25 detto, e sono Giacomo Empehe Polacco a Carlo/ Barrbbiai, in prima Mauro x Under design: primi premi tutti e due, e Barobbini, e di Gienova; Gigli da Cesena in secondda Priaro (?) Premio, Paolo; Bolognese terzo Premio#; #in terza classe, e p[er] vltimo Paolo Emilio mio figlio in derza classe di Pittura/ Secondo premo, p[er] la statua del Juono (?) con il captretto in collo (RB'45) (Coffeehouse with four facades, representing the four parts of the world (four continents) in four fountains in the four centers and the four blocks the four elements. Drawn in remembrance of the day of the 31st of May which I will prepare the stuff for Leone who (?) will send it to Caserta to make the study of the Palace and also in memory of the four prize winnters, in the competition of the aforesaid 25th, and they are Giacomo Empehl, a Pole, and Carlo Barbbini in first Mauro first prize both, and Barobbini of Genoa, Gigli of Cesena in second First Prize Paolo Bolognese Third Prize in the Third class, and for the last Paolo Emilio my son in the Third class for painting, Second prize for the statue of Juno (?) with a kid on the shoulders)

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