Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Artist bio: Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1480–85
Medium: Silverpoint, partly reworked by the artist with pen and dark brown ink on pink prepared paper; lines ruled with metalpoint (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)

Dimensions: 7 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (19.3 x 16.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession year: 1917
Tags: Saint John the Baptist|Christ|Virgin Mary