Designs for Gothic tracery
Anonymous
ca. 1805 (?)
Medium
Pen and black ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 16 5/8 in. (26 x 42.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of János Scholz, 1961
Accession Number
61.636.50
Tags
Ornament
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...