Title: The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1748
Artist:  Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1714–1789 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, on gray-green paper
Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (35.2 x 18.1 cm) (arched top)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 1989
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Weapons, term: Men, term: Saints