Various Designs for Parts of a Carriage

A pen, brown ink and gray wash study sheet with several decorative designs. Three small framed panels and an oval cartouche hold seated and standing figures amid scrolled ornament, while a large lower panel shows a group of figures in a landscape. Cherub heads and a cloud fill the right edge.

Look closer: A small cherub head emerges from a cloud at the lower right, drawn in fine hatching.

Artist

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Date

18th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3204 × 2718 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952