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Assault on a Castle

Assault on a Castle

1475–1500

Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions: image with border: 33.5 x 22.5 cm (13 3/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Genre: Manuscripts
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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