
AT-00021238
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Allegory of America
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (Netherlandish, Bruges 1523–1605 Florence)
- Date
- ca. 1587–89
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk. Incised
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7 1/2 x 10 9/16in. (19 x 26.9cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959
- Accession no.
- 1974.205
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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00021238
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