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            "inscription": "RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: 19 ; lower center, in brown ink: Parmeggiano. ; lower right, in graphite: 15 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in graphite: A 3541 ; FRAGMENT OF OLD MOUNT (now removed), across top, in graphite: Collns. Peter Lely (1618-1680) Lugt 2092 / J. Richardson Sr. (1665-1740) Lugt 2169. ; lower left, in graphite: Parmeggiano: The Nativity. ; across bottom, in graphite:  (& Dream of joseph  ..  An[q?]u  Waru[?]q / [lo?] [flu?] in [6?] [illegible] )"
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            "citation": "Popham, A. E. <em>Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino</em>. Published for the Pierpont Morgan Library by Yale University Press, 1971.",
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            "citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. <em>The Draftsman’s Eye : Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. </em>Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981.",
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            "citation": "Di Giampaolo, Mario, and Elisabetta Fadda.<em> Parmigianino: catalogo completo dei dipinti</em>. Monografie d’arte. Idea Libri, 2003.",
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            "citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, Robert Munman, et al. <em>Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings</em>. Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Harvey Miller, 2008.",
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