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Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 15th to 16th century

Symbolic Figure (a Sibyl?)

16th century
Pen and ink, brush and wash, touched with red chalk and Chinese white, on brown gray paper
25.7 × 14.3 cm (10.1 × 5.6 in)

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