Landscape Drawing for a Wall-Decoration
18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray wash, over black chalk? on cream laid paper. Fragments of framing lines in pen and brown ink. Irregular format: top and bottom arched
19 × 27.2 cm (7.5 × 10.7 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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