Title: The Immortal Author
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1740–97
Artist:  Christian Bernhard Rode 
Artist bio: German, Berlin 1725–1797 Berlin
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Red chalk
Dimensions: 11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.  (28.2 x 21 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Books, term: Men, term: Writing