When paired with Venetia, this paper becomes reflected marble and swirling seaweed in green effervescent water. The shell pink lining completes it.  When I finished, I went searching for the paper weight purchased years ago at the New Jersey shore.  I wonder, would this piece please a Venetian?

The image is from Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne.  The map, published in 1572, depicts Venice viewed from the south with important buildings shown in profile. 

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