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Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the elder

Ruins of Roman Forum, with Figures

c. 1550
Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, squared in graphite, laid down on ivory laid paper
20.4 × 31.4 cm (8 × 12.4 in)

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