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Giuseppe Cades

Design for a Frieze with Two Women Flanking an Urn

ca. 1775–85
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk
33.6 × 49 cm (13.2 × 19.3 in)

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