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Drawing, Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1790-1800 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
20.5 x 28.3 cm (8 1/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457e)
It is inscribed
Written in the framing: "Rabesehi infondo chiare" (Arabesque motifs on clear background); in the entablature: "Rabesehi in/fondo fumo"(? (Arabesque motifs on (?) background); right top corner: "questa mi piace per quella/che (e)seguita apress il conn/.e. one" (I like this as a follow-up to the entablature).
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper; 20.5 x 28.3 cm (8 1/16 x 11 1/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1486
