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John Gibson|Antonio Canova

Sketches of Seven Sculptures: The Four Seasons, Venus and Adonis, A Beggar, and Salmacis

ca. 1850
Pen and brown ink, graphite
23.4 × 34.7 cm (9.2 × 13.7 in)

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