# Design for a Narrative Frieze: A Commander Addressing His Troops

- By: Alessandro Allori (Italian, Florence 1535–1607 Florence)
- Date: 1535–1607
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, highlighted with a little white, over black chalk, on brownish paper; framing lines in black chalk
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: 6-5/16 x 15-1/2 in. (16.1 x 39.3 cm)
- Culture: Italian
- Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1964
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338091)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP807700.jpg
- Who can see it: Adult profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)