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Giovanni Battista Maganza the Elder

Group of Laborers in a Field (recto); Angel Appearing to a Kneeling Saint (verso)

1530–86
Pen and brown ink, brush and pale brown wash, over black-chalk (recto and verso)
8.9 × 22.2 cm (3.5 × 8.7 in)

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