Drawing, Two Designs for a Pile of Trophies Surmounted by a Figure of Victory (or Fame)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1746–1809 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on off-white laid paper. 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: 42.9 x 30.4 cm (16 7/8 x 11 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: Trofeo che Incichi li Regni / vinti dimostrandolo in circolo con ognuno una corazza e nel plinto il nome. la Fama che / colchi Prussie una corona la / quale Allemagna posi sopra un / Napoli / basamento Bretagna (?) il quala abbia / nelli quatro centri le musi (?) / de leoni (?) che dalla boccha / li cadono li festoni di / quercia li quali legono / le Carozze p Simbolo che / sono vinti

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