# Allegory of Drawing

- By: Carlo Maratti (after Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625-1713))
- Date: 1700s
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), with traces of graphite, on tan laid paper
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: 40.1 × 31.5 cm (15 13/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/85102)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/590ea4a85b6af3cfba27ccc10470aa4c.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)