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Domenico Fossati

Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right.

1743–84
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash over traces of graphite
20 × 31.8 cm (7.9 × 12.5 in)

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