Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Design for Half Elevation and Half Ground Plan of a Catafalque for Countess Palatine of the Rhine, Theresia Catharine, wife of Count Palatine, Charles Philip III (1716-1742).

around 1742
Pen, brown ink with brown and gray washes
50.3 × 36.7 cm (19.8 × 14.4 in)

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