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Johannes Meursius

Plate 41: Fireworks display in city square with Ferdinand watching from a balcony at right; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

1636
Engraving
32.8 × 44 cm (12.9 × 17.3 in)

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