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Design for a Frontispiece: Mercury and Fame
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Design for a Frontispiece: Mercury and Fame

Medium

Pen and brown ink with pen and black ink and brush and gray wash. Composition outlined in pen and brown ink. Contours incised and verso blackened with carbon dust for transfer

Dimensions

10-13/16 x 7-1/8 in. (27.5 x 18.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Francisco Rizi

1608–1685Spain

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