Title: Architectural Capriccio with an Arcade and Fountain in Point Perspective [Study for a Painting of John the Baptist before Herod]
Object type: Drawing Ornament & Architecture
Date: ca. 1594–96
Artist:  Hans Vredeman de Vries 
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Leeuwarden 1527–1606 (?)  Antwerp (?)
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink with a gray wash over traces of black chalk, stylus and compass marks
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 5/16 × 16 9/16 in. (28.8 × 42 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2014
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Architecture, term: Arches, term: Columns, term: Fountains