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Design for a Palace Gate

Cooper Hewitt

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Object Details

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Horizontal format. Steps are leading to an entrance pavilion giving access to a palace compound. Left and right of the pavilion is a wall made of bricks and stones. The pavilion is richly decorated with statues, reliefs, ornaments, and with pillars and columns in Corinthian style. Seen through the intercolumniation an obliquely placed garden terrace and part of the facade. The background is colored gray. Framing line and strip.

Credit Line

Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund

Date

1800–30

Accession Number

1940-21-28

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

architecture

Object Name

Drawing

Type

Drawing

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and wash on light brown paper

Dimensions

39.5 × 50.3 cm (15 9/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

made in

Italy

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44d1737d1-15a3-4733-bb82-5b9804ece09e

Record ID

chndm_1940-21-28

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