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Stefano della Bella|François Langlois

Plate 4: A military encampment with a soldier standing on a parapet to the right beating a drum, from 'Various Military Caprices' (Varii capricci militari)

ca. 1641
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8.7 × 13.9 cm (3.4 × 5.5 in)

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