Mask symbolizing sleep. With pileus or hat with drooping opium poppies, and two swans (signifying death) on the shoulders. In carnelian. Maschera simbolica. In corniola. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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