Horizontal Panel Design with a Man fighting a Sphinx and a Fantastical Creature Interspersed between Acanthus Rinceaux

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century Italian
 In the manner of Polifilo Giancarli Italian

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Design for a horizontal panel filled with a meandering acanthus rinceau. In the middle a male figure, whose lower body consists of acanthus leaves, fights with a sphinx-like creature with a male human face. Above them is the head of a snake-like creature with a head shaped like a bird.

Horizontal Panel Design with a Man fighting a Sphinx and a Fantastical Creature Interspersed between Acanthus Rinceaux, Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century, Pen and brown ink over leadpoint

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