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The Dirty Bride or the Marriage of Mopsus and Nisa

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Engraving; first state of four
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1926
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Title: The Dirty Bride or the Marriage of Mopsus and Nisa
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Engraving; first state of four.

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