Plague Victims Pleading for Help from Christ, the Virgin, and Saint Roch

Lattanzio Gambara, 1567/1573

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Artist: Lattanzio Gambara ¹
Date: 1567/1573 ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, with a small patched pasted over the head of the Virgin and then redrawn ¹
Original: 2,994 × 5,292 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

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