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Polidoro da Caravaggio

Mucius Scaevola Crossing the Tiber, Intending to Assassinate Porsenna but Killing his Treasurer by Mistake

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on brown laid paper, laid down on fabric and card
14 × 48.1 cm (5.5 × 18.9 in)

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