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A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper.

Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon

1775/80

Francesco Guardi Italian, 1712-1793

Italy

Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper

Prints and Drawings