Design for the Base of a Vessel with Three Dolphins — Giovanni Battista Foggini | DiscoverArt

Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for the Base of a Vessel with Three Dolphins

1652–1725

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk

8.7 × 8 cm (3.4 × 3.1 in)

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