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Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, Venice 1675–1741 Venice)
1725
- Medium
- Brush and gray wash, over graphite or lead; framing lines in pen and black ink; four sections of paper, two center parts joined together
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 57-5/16 x 20-9/16 in. (145.6 x 52.2 cm)
- Culture
- Italian
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
