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Giovanni David

A Nightmare

ca. 1775–80
Pen and black and gray ink with gray and brown wash, heightened with white and yellow, over black chalk, set within a fictive mount, drawn with a blue wash border and black ink framing lines
23.6 × 30.6 cm (9.3 × 12 in)

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