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Relief fragment with graffiti of two humans and animal heads

Unrecorded maker

ca. late 6th century BCE · Limestone

Seated Figure of Mercury

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (d. 1540)

1524–26 · Black chalk

Study for the Figure of Saint Peter

Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli) (d. 1566)

ca. 1545 · Black chalk

Study for the Figure of Aeolus

Pellegrino Tibaldi (d. 1596)

1549–51 · Red chalk

Seated Male Figure with the Head of an Onlooker (recto); Standing Male Figure in a Monk's Habit (verso)

Bernardino Poccetti (d. 1612)

1548–1612 · Charcoal with traces of white chalk highlights

Seated Old Man with Right Arm Upraised (Tithonus) (recto); Seated Nude Youth (figure of Day) (verso)

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (d. 1666)

1621 · Red chalk on blue paper

Study for the Figure of Christ in a Deposition

Ventura Salimbeni (d. 1613)

late 16th–early 17th century · Red chalk, over traces of an illegible sketch in black chalk.

[Five 35mm Film Frames: Graffiti on Wall, Man and Boxes in Front of Graffiti-Covered Wall, Chalk Drawing, New York City]

Walker Evans (d. 1975)

November–December 1937 · Film negative

I am the Magic Hand

John Gutmann (d. 1998)

1937, printed later · Gelatin silver print

[Graffiti: Chalk Drawing of Figure with Double Pupils, New York City]

Helen Levitt (d. 2009)

ca. 1940 · Gelatin silver print

[Graffiti: Chalk Drawing of Three Animal Forms on Sidewalk, New York City]

Helen Levitt (d. 2009)

ca. 1940 · Gelatin silver print

[Graffiti: Chalk Drawing of Woman with Curly Hair on Boarded-Up Window in Brick Wall, New York City]

Helen Levitt (d. 2009)

ca. 1940 · Gelatin silver print