Design for a Baptismal Font, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, Supported by a shaft with a row of leaves upon an octangonal base of nearly the same diameter. Quatrefoil bowl, the front being decorated with a central medallion, above two crossed branches. Above the rim is at the front a broken pediment from which garlands hang down. The lif has the general shape of a baluster upon a curved base which is fluted. On top a sitting angel with cross staff. Usual background., Rome, Italy, ca. 1775, architecture, Drawing

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