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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Sketch of a Palace's Interior's Foreshortening with Stairs, Statues and Ornaments

1762–1844
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk
20.2 × 29 cm (8 × 11.4 in)

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