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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for a Frame or Epitaph (recto); Caryatid Supporting a Frame (verso)

1652–1725
Pen and light brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk (recto); Black chalk (verso)
24.7 × 15.2 cm (9.7 × 6 in)

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