Title: Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1725
Artist:  Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini 
Artist bio: Italian, Venice 1675–1741 Venice
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Brush and gray wash, over graphite or lead; framing lines in pen and black ink; four sections of paper, two center parts joined together
Dimensions: 57-5/16 x 20-9/16 in.  (145.6 x 52.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures, term: Shields, term: Swords