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Sheet size: 58.3 x 35.8 cm.
Copy in good condition, with very sharp image, and good conservation conditions, with the restoration of a gap on the left margin in another (visible in the photo).
On laid paper with circle and lily watermark.
on a scroll, along the lower margin - Huc genus humanum vultus, huc lumina flecte, / Quo' Sol aspectans pallet, et ora tegit. / Inspicies ne oculis siccis, qui cuncta creavit, / Stipte depositu, quo male nostra tullit? // Ne fugias miserae Matris dolorem, / Neu Comitum planctus voce gemmente sequi. / Quin, alij ante sacrum quam velent corpus, et ungant, / Pronus ego lacrimis vulnera sancta lavem. Federico Borromeo Cardinali ampliss:mo Tit. S. Mariae de Angelis Archiepiscopo Mediolanesi in devout minds testimonial. 1598. Raphael guidi sculpted 67437165
