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Stefano della Bella

Plate 5: two friezes; at top, a grotesque head of an old man to left, a lion head to right, at bottom, a ram skull to left, a grotesque head of a man to right, from 'Friezes, foliage, and grotesques' (Frises, feuillages et grotesques)

ca. 1638–43
Etching
6.5 × 12.4 cm (2.6 × 4.9 in)

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