A two-winged staircase, with a stone-covered court with a fountain in the center is leading to an upper terrace, where two colonnades are the conjunction to the main building. At their ends next to the staircase, small circular buildings are upon their roofs, indicating a third level where cypresses stand. Clouds indicated.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
1650-1700
Pen and brown ink, green, brown wash, black chalk, ruled border in pen and brown Support: white laid paper
1938-88-3759
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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