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Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents

1725
Brush and gray wash, over graphite or lead; framing lines in pen and black ink. Four sections of paper, two center parts joined together
145.6 × 52.2 cm (57.3 × 20.6 in)

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