Stefano Mulinari (1741-1790), The Punishment of the Damned after the Fall of Hell, after Michelangelo, etching with sulfur clay, printed in brown on textured paper, 1780. A demon pushes one of the damned into hellfire, a second demon below the damned, with the devil right in the background, from an unknown. Series by Mulinari after drawings of Old Masters from 1780, plate border 36.5 x 36.5 cm, framed behind glass u. Passepartout 56 x 56 cm

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