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Pietro Antonio Novelli

Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso)

1779/91
Pen and black ink, watercolor, and brush and gray wash, with traces of black chalk (recto), and graphite (verso), on ivory laid paper
54.2 × 39.5 cm (21.3 × 15.6 in)

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