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Drawing, Design for the Decoration of Ceiling and Boxes of Ornani Theater, Rome
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1784 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
27.3 x 19.8 cm (10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d)
It is inscribed
Inscription, center left: Pensieri p[er]ornare un teatro alla Gotica, che (?)... in Piazza Navona...(Ideas for decorating a theater in the Gothic fashion); Bottom, right: "Centro/della Volta" (center of the ceiling).
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for the Decoration of Ceiling and Boxes of Ornani Theater, Rome; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper; 27.3 x 19.8 cm (10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-111
