Design for Ornamental Ceiling
Anonymous
19th century
Medium
pen and gray ink and gray, blue and yellow wash over graphite
Dimensions
image: 22.3 × 14 cm · sheet: 32.1 × 21.9 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift in memory of Price A. Chamberlain from his students
Accession Number
1970.333
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
gender unknownmale
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...