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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Designs for a Funerary Monument with Stairs (Recto). Various Funerary Monument Designs (Verso).

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite or black chalk. Verso: pen and brown ink over traces of graphite
29.5 × 21.3 cm (11.6 × 8.4 in)

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