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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Elephant in a Landscape

1727–1804
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink at left, right, and upper borders
18.1 × 24.3 cm (7.1 × 9.6 in)

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