Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for a Fountain with Two Water-Spouting Lions (recto); Sketch for Triumph of Galatea [?] (verso).

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk. Verso: pen and brown ink over black chalk (Verso)
15.1 × 14.6 cm (5.9 × 5.7 in)

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