Design for a hat badge featuring the head of the Medusa

Details

• Title

  Design for a hat badge featuring the head of the Medusa

• Artist/maker

  Master of the Médaillons Historiques (1550 - 1575)

• Associated place

  Europe (place of creation)

• Date

  c.1540 - 1550

• Material and technique

  pen and black ink with grey wash touched with white bodycolour on vellum

• Object type

  visual representation › drawing

• Dimensions

  sheet 6 x 4.8 cm (oval) (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA1863.133.525

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