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Stefano della Bella

Plate 2: three fragments of friezes; on top, a grotesque head of a man, a skull of a ram at bottom left and a chimera at bottom right, from 'Friezes, foliage, and grotesques' (Frises, feuillages et grotesques)

ca. 1638–43
Etching
6.2 × 12.4 cm (2.4 × 4.9 in)

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