Grotesques Designs with Various Inscriptions (recto); Candelabra Grotesque and Two Putti Holding Flowers (verso)
Object type: Drawing Ornament & Architecture
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Andrés de Melgar
Artist bio: Spanish, documented S. Domingo de la Calzada, died after 1554
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Spanish
Date: ca. 1545–60
Medium: Pen and dark gray-brown ink (recto).  On off-white paper. Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk underdrawing (verso).  Drawing on verso pricked on figures of putti and shells below them
Dimensions: 13-1/4 x 9 in.  (33.7 x 22.9 cm)
Classification: Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession year: 1952
Tags: Musical Instruments|Grotesques|Ornament|Mythical Creatures