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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

'Anno 1690' (the Year 1690), with numerous warring figures clambering on and hanging from the numbers, allusions to the Allegories of the Four Elements and the Four Continents

ca. 1690
Etching
20.7 × 31.2 cm (8.1 × 12.3 in)

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