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Sebastiano Serlio

Architectural Drawing from Le livre d' Architecture, plate 68 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century

1545, assembled into portfolio 1937
Woodcut on paper
28.3 × 19.9 cm (11.1 × 7.8 in)

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