# Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents

- By: Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, Venice 1675–1741 Venice)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/339961)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP331997.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)