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Drawing, Title page of a book
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated October 1796 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: 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
Inscribed, left: Pensiere di un / frontespezio … [?] p[er] un opera dedi / cata ad un Emoseng[na]to (?) il di 14 / Octobre 1796 / che partano (?) da …. (?) a tutta / passata p[or] la Roma / menga; upper right: 101
Cite this object as
Drawing, Title page of a book; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash 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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-2094
