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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for an Alcove with a Coat of Arms Flanked by Putti Bearing a Crown, Supported by Pilasters with Human Heads in Capitals

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray, brown-pink and yellow wash over traces of graphite; framing lines at lower edge in pen and brown ink
28.7 × 24.8 cm (11.3 × 9.8 in)

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