Lobster (recto) Sketch of an Armoured Male Figure (verso)
Anonymous
1600s
Medium
brush and black, gray and brown wash, and red watercolor, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mr. Francis Matthiesen
Accession Number
1956.607
Tags
gender unknown
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...