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Designs for an Altar in a Niche
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Pen and brown ink brush and brown gray purple-gray and green wash over traces of leadpoint; vertical line in leadpoint and pen and brown ink through the center of the drawing to create the symmetry
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1952
Title: Designs for an Altar in a Niche
Description:
Pen and brown ink brush and brown gray purple-gray and green wash over traces of leadpoint; vertical line in leadpoint and pen and brown ink through the center of the drawing to create the symmetry.
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