Design for a Wall-mounted Epitaph

A pen and brown ink design, washed in gray, yellow and pink, for a wall-mounted epitaph. A scrolled Baroque cartouche crowns a stone frame with volutes, garlands and a shell-shaped base. The central panel is left blank, marked with faint dimension lines for its size.

Look closer: Faint dimension lines and handwritten measurement marks cross the blank central panel.

Artist

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Date

ca. 1700–1730

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush with gray, yellow, and pink wash

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3112 × 3424 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947