Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents

1725

Current Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

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: 145.6 × 52.2 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-552711

Provenance

Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959

Registry history

1725 — Recorded in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — drawings

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