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Ornament Panel with Two Sphinxes and Two Children Holding Palms
Ornament Panel with Two Sphinxes and Two Children Holding Palms

Ornament Panel with Two Sphinxes and Two Children Holding Palms

Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours) (Italian, active c. 1490 – 1513)
about 1490-1513
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 49.5 × 8 cm (19 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)(trimmed on the platemark at the top and bottom, and within the platemark at the sides)
Credit LineGift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number41.249
On View
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ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceWilliam G. Russell Allen (1882-1955, Boston); by whom given to MFA April 10, 1941
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