Illustration for a Book:  Soldiers Offering the Decapitated Head of a Man and Keys to a General
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: See Metropolitan Museum of Art acc. nos. 59.600.176 - 59.600.212
Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Artist bio: Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1696–1770
Medium: Black chalk reworked with traces of red chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk
Dimensions: 2-15/16 x 6-1/8 in.  (7.5 x 15.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession year: 1959
Tags: Soldiers|Heads|Generals