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Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Birth of Adonis

1775/1785
Pen and black ink, and brush and black and gray wash, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
26.9 × 40.9 cm (10.6 × 16.1 in)

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