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Giovanni Larciani

Design for a Decorative Cornice

18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk on brown-gray paper Fragments of framing lines in pen and brown ink
16.7 × 24.9 cm (6.6 × 9.8 in)

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