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Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Saint Benedetto dell’Antella seated and writing in a book

ca. 1850–90
Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over red chalk; framing lines in pen and gray ink
10.8 × 6.8 cm (4.3 × 2.7 in)

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