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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Ground Plan of a Catafalque for Francis Lewis of Newburg, Archshop of Mainz (died Breslau 1732)

ca. 1732
Pen, brown ink and gray wash over pencil
49.2 × 33.5 cm (19.4 × 13.2 in)

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