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Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

Design for a Frieze with Two Griffins

1650–1700
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk; highlighted with white gouache oxidized gray-black; framing line; verso may have been rubbed with black chalk
5.7 × 16.4 cm (2.2 × 6.5 in)

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