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Design for Ceiling with Allegorical Figure of Astronomy.
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Pen and brown ink brush and gray wash over construction in leadpoint
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Edward Pearce Casey Fund 1988
Title: Design for Ceiling with Allegorical Figure of Astronomy.
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Pen and brown ink brush and gray wash over construction in leadpoint.
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