Stage design: piazza with a building, an obelisk, and a monument. Buil

A pen and brown wash stage design shows a broad piazza lined with a long, multi-story classical building with pilasters and a lower wing at left. A small domed monument stands in the center, and a tall, slender obelisk rises at right. Numbered marks and a handwritten inscription run along the lower edge.

Look closer: Small handwritten inscription and numbered keys along the bottom edge explain the numbered parts of the building and monument.

Artist

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Date

18th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over lead, on cream laid paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2995 × 1972 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966