Design for a Ceiling with an Allegorical Subject

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

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Artist: Sir James Thornhill (British, Woolland, Dorset (?) 1675/76–1734 Stalbridge, Dorset)
Date: ca. 1713
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)
Dimensions: sheet: 10 x 3 3/4 in. (25.4 x 9.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950
Accession no.: 50.605.25

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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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