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Drawing, Design for an Altar
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1746-1809 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
20.1 x 27.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d and 457e); Watermark: ?
It is inscribed
Written above, at right: "4", and in the lower right corner, vertically: "61".
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for an Altar; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper; 20.1 x 27.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1375
