Title: Design for a Gold and Silver Bishop's Reliquary
Object type: Drawing; Ornament & Architecture
Date: late 18th century
Artist:  Luigi Valadier (?)
Artist bio: Italian, Rome 1726–1785 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush with gray, yellow, red and blue wash, highlighted with white gouache over lead or graphite on cream laid paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 16-1/4 x 14-1/4 in.  (41.2 x 36.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Putti, term: Reliquaries