Georg Friedrich Grotefend

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Grotefend, detail of a lithograph by C. Kiesel, c. 1830, after a portrait by J.F. Winkelmann

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Grotefend, detail of a lithograph by C. Kiesel, c. 1830, after a portrait by J.F. Winkelmann

Grotefend, detail of a lithograph by C. Kiesel, c. 1830, after a portrait...

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