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Mary Magdalene in penitence in the desert
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Engraving
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Alice C. Taft Hope Smith Marianna F. Taft Helen Head and Brockholst M. Smith 1945
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