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Left Half of a Cartouche with Griffin and Acanthus Scroll
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Left Half of a Cartouche with Griffin and Acanthus Scroll

1732–1802

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and dark green wash

Dimensions

7 11/16 x 3 5/8 in. (19.6 x 9.2 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