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Drawing, Bedroom alcove with a figure

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 18th century and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, red ink 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: 40.5 x 34.4 cm (15 15/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Numbered in pen and brown ink at upper right:135 Indication of scale in pen and brown ink, at right and bottom, the height up to the entablature of the tent is indicated: 16 1/2; that of entablature: 5/12

Cite this object as

Drawing, Bedroom alcove with a figure; Architect: Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite, red ink on off-white laid paper, lined; Image: 40.5 x 34.4 cm (15 15/16 x 13 9/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1653

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