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Felix Anton Scheffler

Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Allegories of the Four Continents

1715–60
Pen and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on blue paper
33.8 × 32.5 cm (13.3 × 12.8 in)

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