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Jacques Callot|François Langlois

Une Ecrevisse Regardant Le Soleil (A Crayfish Looking at the Sun), from Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre (The Light of the Cloisters), plate 18

1621–35
Etching and letterpress; second state of two (Lieure)
14.2 × 10.5 cm (5.6 × 4.1 in)

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