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Giovanni Guerra

Design after a Fountain in the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati.

1590–1600
Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash and pale blue-gray watercolor accents (on the depictions of water), over leadpoint or black chalk, with ruling and compass construction
34.6 × 68 cm (13.6 × 26.8 in)

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