Design for Frame with Trees and Trellises

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Artist: Johann Oktavian Salver (German (active Würzburg) 1732–1788)
Date: 1755
Medium: Brush and black and gray wash over traces of black chalk; incised for transfer
Dimensions: 18 1/8 x 13 3/16 in. (46.1 x 33.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Accession no.: 67.792.2

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Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018836
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1750–88 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018837
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1750–88 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018838
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1750–88 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018840

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