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Studies for Figural Groups and Ornament (recto); Design for a Baptismal Font (verso)
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Pen and two colors of brown ink on cream paper (recto); pen and brown ink brush and brown wash and black chalk (verso)
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Miss Edith Standen 1998
Title: Studies for Figural Groups and Ornament (recto); Design for a Baptismal Font (verso)
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Pen and two colors of brown ink on cream paper (recto); pen and brown ink brush and brown wash and black chalk (verso).
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