Donato Giuseppe Frisoni

Design for a Ceiling Decoration.

1709–20
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over graphite or leadpoint with ruled and compass construction
22.3 × 20 cm (8.8 × 7.9 in)

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