Design for a Frontispiece: Mercury and Fame

1650

Pen and brown ink with pen and black ink and brush and gray wash. Composition outlined in pen and brown ink. Contours incised and verso blackened with carbon dust for transfer

27.5 × 18.1 cm (10.8 × 7.1 in)

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