Design for an Oval Ceiling
19th century
Medium
Watercolor, heightened with gold
Dimensions
sheet (Oval): 7 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. (18.1 x 15.9 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, 1962
Accession Number
62.600.595
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, British, 19th century · 1800–1900
**Anonymous, British, 19th century** is not the name of a single individual but a standard museum attribution used for works whose creators remain unidentified yet are clearly British and date to the 1800s. Major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, employ this designation for hundreds of drawings, prints, designs, and decorative studies that lack signatures or firm documentary ...