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Drawing, Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca)
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1795 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined. 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
Image: 36.3 x 24.1 cm (14 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: strasburg lily with hanging beehive below A IVerso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in ink, upper right: 43
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca); Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined; Image: 36.3 x 24.1 cm (14 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1761
