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Drawing, Design for a Mausoleum or a Kaffeehaus
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1788-1789 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash 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
20.3 x 27 cm (8 x 10 5/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d and 457e); Watermark: bird above triple mount, in circle (RB'45)
It is inscribed
Top left and center right: written accounts; Top: scale Lower right corner: 69
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Mausoleum or a Kaffeehaus; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper; 20.3 x 27 cm (8 x 10 5/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1057
