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Giovanni Battista Foggini

View in 3/4 of a Design for a Headpiece Decorated with a Shell and Large Plume

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, brush and light brown wash over traces of black chalk
16.6 × 11.5 cm (6.5 × 4.5 in)

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