Celestial Venus (recto); Main Hall, Baths of Diocletian (verso)

drawings (visual works)prints and drawing

Date

c. 1535

Medium

Pen and brown ink (recto), and pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and black chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

23 × 10.2 cm (9 1/16 × 4 1/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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