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Drawing, Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault

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 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 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d and 457e); Watermark: scrollwork escutcheon with dover over triple mount. Above crown, below: G A

It is inscribed

Upper right corner: 20

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined; Image: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1534

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