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Design for a Cartouche with a Lion's Head and Nimbus
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Design for a Cartouche with a Lion's Head and Nimbus

1732–1802

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and green wash with framing lines in gray-green ink

Dimensions

7 x 8- 7/16 in. (17.8 x 21.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Carlo Bianconi

1732–1802

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