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Pier Leone Ghezzi

Father Pepe Preaching to Sailors

c. 1740
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper and edge-mounted on pale blue-green laid paper
48 × 38 cm (18.9 × 15 in)

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