Title: Study for an Inkstand
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1740–45
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 
Artist bio: Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, with splashes of brown wash on the left, over black chalk
Dimensions: 17 11/16 x 12 3/16 in.  (45 x 31 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Mermaids