The Annunciation (recto); Faint View of Buildings (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino)
Artist bio: Italian, Florence 1473–1517 Florence
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1472–1517
Medium: Pen and brown ink (kneeling angel at left), faint black chalk (the hardly legible standing figure of the Virgin at right) (recto); faint view of buildings in pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions: 4 3/16 x 5 15/16 in.  (10.7 x 15.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Bequest of Anne D. Thomson, 1923
Accession year: 1923
Tags: Archangel Gabriel|Annunciation|Virgin Mary