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Larissa Bates, The Impossibility of Seeing: Animals of the Universal History of the Things of New Spain, or the Florentine Codex (2015)
Title: Larissa Bates, The Impossibility of Seeing: Animals of the Universal History of the Things of New Spain, or the Florentine Codex (2015)
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Gold leaf and gouache on panel, 11 × 14 in.
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