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Drawing, Design for a Monument, ca. 1795
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated ca. 1795 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
27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 7/8 x 8 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d and 457e); Watermark: Broad above triple mount; above: crown below "7F" (?).
It is inscribed
"31" is written as in 1938-88-1274.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Monument, ca. 1795; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper; 27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 7/8 x 8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1277
