Design for a Helmet with a Sphinx presented in 3/4 View
Object type: Drawing Ornament & Architecture
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Giovanni Battista Foggini
Artist bio: Italian, Florence 1652–1725 Florence
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1652–1725
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and light brown wash, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions: sheet: 7 x 3 7/16 in. (17.8 x 8.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession year: 1952
Tags: Helmets|Portraits|Women|Sphinx