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Richard Wilson

'Il Mascherone,' a Rocaille Fountain on the Grounds of the Villa Borghese

c. 1754
Black chalk with touches of opaque white watercolor on blue laid paper
20 × 23.5 cm (7.9 × 9.3 in)

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