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Drawing, Stage Design: A Suicide in a Cavern

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated ca. 1796-1801 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, gray ink 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

22 x 34.3 cm (8 11/16 x 13 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed at lower left of mount in pen and black ink: : Fine Berche (?) Immorale delli Ommini onesti (HH '39) (Though immoral/in such a way/honest men end/it all); Numbered at upper right: "N41"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design: A Suicide in a Cavern; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, gray ink on lined off-white laid paper; 22 x 34.3 cm (8 11/16 x 13 1/2 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-134

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