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Drawing, Design for a Fountain in a Pavilion

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Carlo Francesco Barabino and designed by Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1785–90 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is graphite, brush and brown-yellow, gray wash on two pieces of paper, pasted together. 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

36.2 × 21.7 cm (14 1/4 × 8 9/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed left, in ink: rge / [?]; at right, in graphite: Come.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Fountain in a Pavilion; Architect: Carlo Francesco Barabino (Italian, 1768 – 1835); Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; graphite, brush and brown-yellow, gray wash on two pieces of paper, pasted together; 36.2 × 21.7 cm (14 1/4 × 8 9/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-2129

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