Title: Design for plate 8, from "Orthographia"
Object type: Drawing; Ornament & Architecture
Date: late 17th–mid-18th century
Portfolio: Orthographia
Artist:  Johann Daniel Preissler 
Artist bio: German, Nuremberg 1666–1737 Nuremberg
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown and gray ink, brush and gray wash over black chalk; inlaid on paper mount with green and black framing lines
Dimensions: 6 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.  (15.6 x 28.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Ornament, term: Insignia