Title: Illustration for a Book:  Soldier in front of "General" Holding up a Decapitated Head on a Staff
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1696–1770
Portfolio: See Metropolitan Museum of Art acc. nos. 59.600.176 - 59.600.212
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 
Artist bio: Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Black chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk
Dimensions: 3-1/16 x 6 in.  (7.8 x 15.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Soldiers, term: Heads, term: Men, term: Generals