Proof for Letter I, Dream Alphabet by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

A young girl stands at center in a loose green-gray dress, balancing a basket of flowers on her head and holding more blossoms in her skirt. Pen-and-ink and wash studies of male heads in profile, with long curled hair, surround her on pale laid paper, and a small numeral 1 appears at the bottom.

Artist

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

Date

1683

Medium

Red crayon on white laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2204 × 2880 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum