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Drawing, Pillar strip
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1780–1800 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash 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: 20.9 x 3.9 cm (8 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: part of three-pointed star, above is a circle with (?); Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d and 457e)
It is inscribed
Inscribed, above: La cerqua p / siano piccio / ….
Cite this object as
Drawing, Pillar strip; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined; Image: 20.9 x 3.9 cm (8 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1858
