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Drawing, Baptismal Font

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated ca. 1775 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on cream 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

27.4 x 19.9 cm (10 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp on verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt 457d)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Baptismal Font; Architect: Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on cream laid paper; 27.4 x 19.9 cm (10 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1413

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