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Antonio Basoli

Design for a Stage Set: Semi-Circular Colonnaded Building, a Bridge Surmounted by a Tempietto, a Fountain in the Foreground and Putti Bearing Garlands.

1774–1843
Pen and brown ink, brush with brown, blue, rose and gray wash, over traces of graphite
25 × 34.3 cm (9.8 × 13.5 in)

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