Pen and brown ink drawing of candlestick designs, including a tall column candlestick at left and a branching candelabrum with scrolled arms at center, with handwritten lettering across the top.

Candlesticks, Probably for the Palazzo Altieri, Rome

Pen and brown ink with brown wash shows several candlestick designs on a narrow sheet: a tall fluted column on a stepped base at left, and a branching candelabrum with scrolled arms and leafy ornament at center. Smaller sketches of bases and a bracket fill the lower area, and handwritten Italian lettering runs across the top.

Artist: Giuseppe Barberi
Date: 1789–1793
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 679 × 1647 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1793).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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