161 .-- Comic sketch on ostrakon in New York Museum.] [Illustration: Fig.

162 .-- Vignette from _The Book of the Dead_, Saite period] [Illustration: Fig.

163 .-- Vignette from _The Book of the Dead_, from the papyrus of Hunefer.] The few designs which have come down to us are drawn on pieces of limestone, and are for the most part in sufficiently bad preservation.

The British Museum possesses two or three subjects in red outline, which may perhaps have been used as copies by the decorators of some Theban tomb about the time of the Twentieth Dynasty.

A fragment in the Museum of Gizeh contains studies of ducks or geese in black ink; and at Turin may be seen a sketch of a half-nude female figure bending backwards, as about to turn a somersault.