Title: Design for a Stage Set: Double Stairway Pierced by an Arcade (recto); Slight Sketch (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1698–1765
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Natali III 
Artist bio: Italian, Pontremoli, Tuscany 1698–1765 Naples
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite or black chalk (recto); Pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions: sheet: 4 x 6 1/4 in. (10.2 x 15.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1974
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Arches, term: Columns, term: Stairs, term: Stage Design