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Drawing, Two Birds in Foliage with Seed Pods

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1780–1800 and we acquired it in 1901. 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.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

  • Plate
  • tin-glazed earthenware.
  • Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
  • 2017-20-10

Its dimensions are

Image: 27.2 x 19.9 cm (10 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

In ink, upper left corner: 77

Cite this object as

Drawing, Two Birds in Foliage with Seed Pods; Architect: Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined; Image: 27.2 x 19.9 cm (10 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-1228

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