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Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert|Maarten van Heemskerck

Foolish Knowledge and Foolish Love Trying to Restrain the World, from The Unrestrained World, plate 2

1550
Etching and Engraving; first state of two (New Hollstein)
20.8 × 26.2 cm (8.2 × 10.3 in)

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