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Stefano della Bella

Two wild boar heads below, a deer head above, a bow and arrow in center, from 'Ornaments or Grotesques' (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

ca. 1650–56
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17.1 × 7 cm (6.7 × 2.8 in)

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