Design for Stem of a Ship

Design for Stem of a Ship by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor, and graphite; on verso, graphite. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.

Dimensions

Overall: 10 11/16 x 13 1/8 in. (27.2 x 33.4 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953

Accession Number

53.532.5

Tags

Mythical CreaturesShips

About the Artist

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 17001800

The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...

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