Drawing, Stage Design for the Interior of a Palace in Classical Style

This is a drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated 1778 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined 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

19.7 x 27.2 cm (7 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscription: "Perche non siate il Pittore di punto in messo solamente una mano incognita, che vi desidera bene, vi rimetti li due senzi presenti se volete que sia una scena piu grandiosa ove sono li tre fenestroni, fate una fedita di architettura aquisa di una galleria come parebbe L A" (Because you are not the painter of the point in question, but just an unknown hand, and I wish you well, I have sent you two versions. In case yo would like to have a more pompous setting just make some sort of architecture at the place where the three windows are, by arranging a gallery like that shown by section L A.)

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