Design for Book Illustration

Provenance

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Artist: Franz Sigrist (Austrian, Altbreisach 1727–1803 Vienna)
Date: late 18th century
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, white heightening on paper washed with pinkish gray. Incised for transfer. Mounted on pink paper with pencil framing lines.
Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of James Clark McGuire, 1926
Accession no.: 26.216.23

Design for a Book Illustration
Franz Sigrist
late 18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018809
Design for a Book Illustration
Franz Sigrist
18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018810
Design for Book Illustration
Franz Sigrist
late 18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018813

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.