Title: Design for a Decorated Wall with Grottesque over Blue Background
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1762–1844
Artist:  Giuseppe Bernardino Bison 
Artist bio: Italian, Palmanova 1762–1844 Milan
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and orange-gold, black wash with white gouache over traces of leadpoint on blue prepared paper
Dimensions: 6-1/8 x 11-7/16 in. (15.5 x 29 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, June 1966
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Grotesques, term: Ornament