Title: An Ecclesiastic (Pope?) Blessing a Book before the Sacred College
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1580–90
Artist:  Cesare Nebbia 
Artist bio: Italian, Orvieto ca. 1536–1614 Orvieto
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; traces of framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 8 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. (21.5 x 28.7 cm) maximum; original support
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Anonymous Gift, 2006
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Popes, term: Monks