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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Ground Plan for a Catafalque for a Duke of Wolfenbüttel-Brunswich, probably Anton Ulrich (d. 1714)

1696–1756
Pen, brown ink and gray wash
52.1 × 36.4 cm (20.5 × 14.3 in)

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