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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Old Man Wearing a Turban Ornamented with Fur, Facing Right, from Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress

1645/50
Etching in black on cream wove paper
11 × 8.1 cm (4.3 × 3.2 in)

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