Design for a Frieze with Two Griffins
Object type: Drawing Ornament & Architecture
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1650–1700
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk; highlighted with white gouache oxidized gray-black; framing line; verso may have been rubbed with black chalk
Dimensions: 2 1/4 x 6 7/16 in. (5.7 x 16.4 cm)
Classification: Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession year: 1952
Tags: Griffins