Title: Design for plate 2, from "Orthographia"
Object type: Drawing; Ornament & Architecture
Date: late 17th–mid-18th century
Artist:  Johann Daniel Preissler 
Artist bio: German, Nuremberg 1666–1737 Nuremberg
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk; inlaid on paper mount with green and black framing lines; incised(?)
Dimensions: 5 15/16 x 11 in.  (15.1 x 28 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Animals, term: Birds, term: Boys, term: Flowers