Felice Giani

Design for a Ceiling with Decoration Related to Virgil's Sixth Canto

1758–1823
Pen and brown ink, brush and yellow, pink, blue and green wash over traces of leadpoint; vertical line in leadpoint through the center to create the symmetry of the drawing and to other vertical lines parallels to the one on the center
20.3 × 26.2 cm (8 × 10.3 in)

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