Grotesque Panel, black chalk, pen and ink, brown, grey wash on paper, Vertical rectangle. Symmetrical scheme with slight deviations in details. A candelabrum is in the middle framed by a gaine with a winged female throax, carrying upon the head a fruit bowl, from which branch spirals spring. In these are rabbits. Bead festoons are fastened to the wings. Their other ends are carried by geese standing upon oxen. Below are lions rampant in whose mouths half figures with butterfly wings and entwined snake legs look. Framing lines above, at left, below., Italy, 1570–1600, Drawing, Drawing
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Grotesque Panel, black chalk, pen, ink, brown, grey wash, paper, Vertical rectangle, Symmetrical scheme, slight deviations, details, candelabrum, middle framed, gaine, winged female throax, carrying upon, head, fruit bowl, branch spirals spring, rabbits, Bead festoons, fastened, wings, ends, carried, geese standing upon oxen, lions rampant, mouths half figures, butterfly wings, entwined snake legs look, Framing lines, left, Italy, 1570–1600, Drawing, Drawing
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