# The Annunciation (recto); Faint View of Buildings (verso)

- By: Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) (Italian, Florence 1473–1517 Florence)
- Date: 1472–1517
- Medium: Pen and brown ink (kneeling angel at left), faint black chalk (the hardly legible standing figure of the Virgin at right) (recto); faint view of buildings in pen and brown ink (verso)
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: 4 3/16 x 5 15/16 in. (10.7 x 15.1 cm)
- Culture: Italian
- Credit line: Bequest of Anne D. Thomson, 1923
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338147)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP807842.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)