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Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Polidoro da Caravaggio|Aegidius Sadeler II|Marcus Sadeler

Plate 6: Vase or Ewer with a Frieze Containing Naked Figures, Supported Below by Two Female Sphinxes, from Antique Vases (Vasa a Polydoro Caravagino)

1605
Etching and engraving; second state of three (Bartsch)
23.5 × 15.7 cm (9.3 × 6.2 in)

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