Vignette Illustrating Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" (X:78), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1745

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Vignette Illustrating Torquato Tasso's 'Gerusalemme Liberata' (X:78), 1745, Red chalk over traces of graphite, sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (21 x cm), Drawings, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682–1754 Venice), This elegantly rendered pastoral scene was conceived by Giovan Battista Piazzetta as a preliminary study for the engraving on folio 126 bis recto of the 1745 edition of Torquato Tasso’s epic masterpiece 'La Gerusalemme Liberata' (Jerusalem Delivered

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