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Stefano della Bella

Frontispiece for 'Poems by Desmarets' (Oeuvres poétiques de Desmarets): a winged woman representing poetry sitting in center, turned towards the left, holding a bugle in her left hand, a putto at right tuning a lute, a mask, books, and swords on ground below

1641
Etching
24.8 × 18.4 cm (9.8 × 7.2 in)

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