Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden)
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Object Details
- Architect
- Unknown, Italian
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a garden pavilion or decorative wall. A wall with an arched opening at the center. It is flanked by two pairs of embedded columns; the flanking parts of the wall are divided by columns into two panels which are decorated with oblongs with floral motifs. Pilasters are at the corners. Above is an entablature with frieze with triglyphs and trophies of weapons. Balustrades with two vases with plants are above the lateral walls. Above the central part is an attic, consisting of a central part with a tablet for an inscription, flanked by two parts with niches.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1725–75
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-3464
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on white paper
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 54.8 cm (14 3/4 x 21 9/16 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-3464
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4749bcb7d-7582-4c67-9096-6fd4a64d97d8
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