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Carlo Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set: Solomon Receiving the Queen of Sheba under a Baldacchino, with Fantastical Architecture and a Gardenscape.

1728–78
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over graphite
20.3 × 34.6 cm (8 × 13.6 in)

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