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Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi

Numa Pompilius Giving the Laws to the Romans

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored) and touches of pink gouache, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
22.3 × 30.3 cm (8.8 × 11.9 in)

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