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The Dirty Bride or The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa

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Pen and black-brown ink on white-prepared partially carved block of applewood
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1932
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Title: The Dirty Bride or The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa
Description:
Pen and black-brown ink on white-prepared partially carved block of applewood.

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