Brown ink drawing of allegorical figures in clouds above an ostrich, reeds, and a seated figure with a bow in the lower right.

Allegory of Africa, pen and brown ink drawing

A brown ink and wash drawing shows robed figures and a figure with a parasol gliding through clouds above. Below, an ostrich stands beside a reeded river edge, and a seated figure with a bow rests among plants at lower right.

Artist: Gregorio Guglielmi
Date: 1765
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on ivory laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1148 px

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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection

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