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Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert|Maarten van Heemskerck

The World Perishing Together with Knowledge and Love, from The Unrestrained World, plate 4

1550
Etching and Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)
21.7 × 25.7 cm (8.5 × 10.1 in)

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