Title: Design for a Mantlepiece
Object type: Drawing Ornament & Architecture
Date: mid-18th–late 18th century
Artist:  Christian Gottlob Mietzsch 
Artist bio: German, Dresden 1742–1799 Dresden
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and light brown wash over traces of black chalk.
Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 6 11/16 in.  (22.6 x 17 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Fireplaces, term: Male Nudes, term: Women, term: Lions