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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Design for a Wall Decorated with Grotesque

1762–1844
Pen and light brown ink, brush and brown, green, yellow, pink, orange, purple and blue wash over traces of leadpoint
20.3 × 15.4 cm (8 × 6.1 in)

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