Title: Framed Design for an Altar
Object type: Drawing; Ornament & Architecture
Date: ca. 1710–20
Artist:  Giuseppe Galli Bibiena 
Artist bio: Italian, Parma 1696–1756 Berlin
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash over traces of leadpoint, on cream laid paper; vertical line in leadpoint trough the center to create the symmetry of the design
Dimensions: 1-3 1/4 x 8- 3/4 in. (33.6 x 22.2 cm) irregular borders
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Altars