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Recto: "Libro Primo, Chapo Quarto..." (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 4); Verso: The Fortification of City Walls (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 5).
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Pen and dark brown ink
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty by exchange 2008
Title: Recto: "Libro Primo, Chapo Quarto..." (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 4); Verso: The Fortification of City Walls (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 5).
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Pen and dark brown ink.
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