Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

Design for a Balcony

1700–1780
pen and brown ink over fine black chalk in two sheets glued together (recto). Construction lines in leadpoint (verso)
19.6 × 30.2 cm (7.7 × 11.9 in)

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