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Sheet of architectural sketches

Sheet of architectural sketches, including stage designs. One side, below: a market place. Center: a polygonal room with a cupola. Above, in opposite direction: the stage is bordered by the outskirts of a fortified town. Other side, below at left: a gate as a sidewing. At right: a hall with a monument at its center. Center, in opposite direction: interior of a fortress with stairs leading to a tower bridge. Below, at right, a plan.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund

c. 1800-20
Pen and bistre ink on gray-brown paper
1938-88-1670
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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