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Quarter of a Design for a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling Decoration

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Pen and brown ink brush and red-brown and gold watercolor over graphite
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1952
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Title: Quarter of a Design for a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling Decoration
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Pen and brown ink brush and red-brown and gold watercolor over graphite.

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