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Jost Amman

Illustration from Plinius' Naturgeschichte by J. Heyden, plate 49 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century

1571, assembled into portfolio 1937
Woodcut on paper
8 × 6 cm (3.1 × 2.4 in)

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