Stage Design, Ruins in Landscape

A pen and brown ink drawing with grey wash shows a crumbling classical structure with broken brick walls, a sloping timber roof frame, and a pergola-like colonnade at left. Overgrown foliage tops the ruin, and a faint hill recedes beneath the open sky.

Artist

Unknown

Date

early 19th century

Medium

Pen and bistre ink, brush and sepia wash on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2995 × 2244 px

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