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Unknown Northern Italian

Rape of Proserpina

1550/59
Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on lunette-shaped cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash, squared in graphite, laid down on cream laid card
37.2 × 25 cm (14.6 × 9.8 in)

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