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Giovanni Cattini|Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Plate 8: Man in a hat reading a book with a magnifying glass; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

1743
Etching
44.5 × 34 cm (17.5 × 13.4 in)

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