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Grinling Gibbons

Pedimental Design for a Wren Building

1741/86
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper
9.5 × 22.6 cm (3.7 × 8.9 in)

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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026

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