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Allegory of Heaven and Hell
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Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash over black chalk underdrawing on beige paper. Composition outlined with brush and gray wash over pen and brown ink in oval shape with double outlines. Text written in pen and dark brown ink over black chalk below composition
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Harry G. Sperling 1971
Title: Allegory of Heaven and Hell
Description:
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash over black chalk underdrawing on beige paper.
Composition outlined with brush and gray wash over pen and brown ink in oval shape with double outlines.
Text written in pen and dark brown ink over black chalk below composition.
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