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Envy from Ovid's "House of Envy" (Book II, lines 760-796) (recto); A naked woman (verso)
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Recto: pen and black ink brush and brown wash and watercolor over graphite
Verso: pen and brown ink and graphite
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 2015
Title: Envy from Ovid's "House of Envy" (Book II, lines 760-796) (recto); A naked woman (verso)
Description:
Recto: pen and black ink brush and brown wash and watercolor over graphite
Verso: pen and brown ink and graphite.
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