Antique-Style Ornamental Oblong Design: Grotesque Figures, Masks, and Amphorae
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century
Artist bio: Italian, active Central Italy, ca. 1550–1580
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: early 16th century
Medium: Pen and two colors of brown ink, over traces of leadpoint underdrawing, on buff laid paper
Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 5 9/16 in. (35 x 14.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession year: 1959
Tags: Birds|Grotesques|Ornament|Mythical Creatures