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Plate 7: a triton in the water, facing left, holding up an eel in his right hand and two other eels underwater in his left hand, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)
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Etching, 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)
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'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte), Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Phyllis Massar 2011
Title: Plate 7: a triton in the water, facing left, holding up an eel in his right hand and two other eels underwater in his left hand, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)
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Etching, 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte).
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