Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Interlaced Figures, on a Body Adorned with Bucrania, Garlands, and Three River Gods
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Girolamo Genga
Artist bio: Italian, Urbino (?) 1467–1551 near Urbino
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1540–50
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; traces of framing outlines in pen and brown ink at left and bottom
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 5/16 x 6 7/8 in. (21.1 x 17.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession year: 1949
Tags: Garlands|Male Nudes|Female Nudes