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Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

Figures Watching a Display of Fireworks at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome (recto); A Distant View of the Fireworks Seen from a Villa Garden (verso)

1606–80
Pen and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink over leadpoint or graphite (verso)
25.7 × 37.1 cm (10.1 × 14.6 in)

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