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Stefano della Bella|Nicolas Langlois

A poor woman to left, seen from behind, enveloping her child in a shawl, another woman seen from behind to left in background, a woman atop a horse and a man to right in background, plate 21 from "Diversi capricci"

ca. 1644–47
Etching; third state of four (De Vesme)
8 × 10.2 cm (3.1 × 4 in)

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