Design for a Cartouche with a Coat of Arms containing a Griffin

Carlo Bianconi

1732–1802

Design for a Cartouche with a Coat of Arms containing a Griffin by Carlo Bianconi

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of leadpoint

Dimensions

8 13/16 x 7 1/8 in. (22.4 x 18.1 cm)

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952

Accession Number

52.570.128

Tags

CartouchesGriffinsCoat of Arms

About the Artist

Carlo Bianconi · 17321802

Italian scholar and archivist; first secretary of the Reale accademia di Brera. Comment on works: painter; sculptor

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