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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Ground Plan for a Catafalque for Frederick Augustus I, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony (1694-1733)

ca. 1733
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk
46.2 × 38 cm (18.2 × 15 in)

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