Design for a Painted Wall Decoration, with Figures in a Landscape with Classical Ruins
18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, over black chalk on cream laid paper. Groundline stylus-incised
20.8 × 41.1 cm (8.2 × 16.2 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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