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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Birds and Animals around a Dead Tree

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with touches of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
29.6 × 20.5 cm (11.7 × 8.1 in)

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