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Giulio Romano

Daedalus and Icarus

n.d.
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of lead white, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, with stray graphite marks, cut out and laid down on cream laid paper, laid down on tan laid card
26.9 × 20.9 cm (10.6 × 8.2 in)

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