Title: Architectural Fantasy: Figures on a Grand Staircase (recto); Studies for the Frame of a Shaped Field (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1712–93
Artist:  Francesco Guardi 
Artist bio: Italian, Venice 1712–1793 Venice
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (verso)
Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 6 1/4in. (25.3 x 15.8cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1937
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures, term: Stairs