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Plate 4: Vase or Ewer with a Frieze containing mermaids and centaurs, and below a lion's head with garlands and ribbons, from Antique Vases (‘Vasa a Polydoro Caravagino’)

1605
Etching and engraving; second state of three (Bartsch)
23.5 × 15.8 cm (9.3 × 6.2 in)

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