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Battista Franco

Design for a Fountain with Sea Horses and Triton Base, Basin, Dolphins and Tritons, Three Grotesque heads and Neptune

ca. 1550
Pen and brown ink
38.7 × 24.8 cm (15.2 × 9.8 in)

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