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Design for "Orthographia", pl.2
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Design for "Orthographia", pl.2

late 17th–mid-18th century

Medium

Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk. Inlayed on paper mount with green and black framing lines. Incised(?)

Dimensions

5 15/16 x 11 in. (15.1 x 28 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Johann Daniel Preissler

1666–1737Germany

Comment on works: Biblical; Allegory