Design for a Façade Decoration

pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)

Date

c. 1548

Medium

Pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white, on blue laid paper, edge mounted to cream laid paper with ornamental border in brush and gold paint

Dimensions

26 × 39.7 cm (10 1/4 × 15 11/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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