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Jan van der Straet

Design for Frontispiece to the Seven Virtues

1598
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer
17.8 × 13 cm (7 × 5.1 in)

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