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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for a Tomb of Epitaph (recto); An Unfinished Variation of a Tomb or Epitaph (verso)

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto and verso)
23.9 × 20.7 cm (9.4 × 8.1 in)

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