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Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982. 224 p., ill. Cat. no. 92.\n\nGabriel, Jeanette Hanisee with contributions by Anna Maria Massinelli and essays by Judy Rudoe and Massimo Alfieri. &lt;u&gt;Micromosaics: The Gilbert Collection&lt;/u&gt;. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. in association with The Gilbert Collection, 2000. 310 p., ill. Cat. no. 40, p. 96. ISBN 0856675113."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Fields, Mary Durland. 'The Phantom Art of Micromosaics', <u>Miniature Collector</u>, October 1983, no. 39, ill. p. 47."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Künstler-Lexikon</u>, 1913, p. 16."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gabriel, Jeanette Hanisee with contributions by Anna Maria Massinelli and essays by Judy Rudoe and Massimo Alfieri. <u>Micromosaics: The Gilbert Collection</u>. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. in association with The Gilbert Collection, 2000. 310 p., ill. Cat. no. 40, p. 96. 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