Illustration for a Book: Bishops and Monks Being Received at a Ship by a Venerable Dignitary

1696–1770

Current Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Medium: Black chalk. Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk
Dimensions: 7.4 × 15.4 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-538894

Provenance

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Registry history

1696–1770 — Recorded in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — drawings

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