Recto: Medieval Crucifix; Verso: Baptism of Christ from the Life of St. John the Baptist (left); Assumption of the Virgin (right), Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on laid paper, Vertical rectangle. Verso: Crucifix in the Romanesque scheme shoes a projected elongation of the arms with the figures of the Virgin and St. John up to the very cross-arms and an interchange of the places of the two figures. Inscription in the upper left corner: 'Pianeta pezze (?) in 4 Romani pezze 6 gia 3 (or 5)/ Santa Maria.' Verso, top.

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