Grotesques Designs with Various Inscriptions (recto); Candelabra Grotesque and Two Putti Holding Flowers (verso)
ca. 1545–60
Pen and dark gray-brown ink (recto). On off-white paper. Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk underdrawing (verso). Drawing on verso pricked on figures of putti and shells below them
33.7 × 22.9 cm (13.3 × 9 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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