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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for a Frieze Decorated With a Palmette and Tendrils (recto); Two Designs for a Rosette (verso)

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk
4.2 × 11 cm (1.7 × 4.3 in)

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