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Ugo di Provenza POSTCARDS postcard Modena, Tommaso da Europe: Italy 2003 paper overall: 100 x 154 mm
Colour souvenir postcard reproducing the fresco of 1352 depicting Cardinal Hugo of Provence writing at a desk whilst wearing rivet spectacles.
2003.47
Gift of Mrs Rebecca Foster, 2002
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