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Design for Title-Page for Guitar Manual by Ferdinando Valdambrini

c. 1646
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, with touches of red crayon, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
25 × 17.1 cm (9.8 × 6.7 in)

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