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Drawing, Project: a fountain in honor of Emperor Napoleon
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1796–1801 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.
Barberi’s original turn of mind is apparent in this drawing, but amusing or absurd as it is, at the same time it is an imposing and dignified monument.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
Its dimensions are
Image: 22.3 x 35.2 cm (8 3/4 x 13 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark; Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d) and Mrs. Mary Brandegee (Lugt#1860c) Unidentified watermark (RB'45)
It is inscribed
Inscription: NAPOLEONE Upper right corner: 13
Cite this object as
Drawing, Project: a fountain in honor of Emperor Napoleon; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined; Image: 22.3 x 35.2 cm (8 3/4 x 13 7/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1776
