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Framed Design for an Altar
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Pen and brown ink brush and brown and gray wash over traces of leadpoint on cream laid paper. A vertical line in leadpoint trough the center to create the symmetry of the design
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest 1971
Title: Framed Design for an Altar
Description:
Pen and brown ink brush and brown and gray wash over traces of leadpoint on cream laid paper.
A vertical line in leadpoint trough the center to create the symmetry of the design.
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