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Scene from Ancient History
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Pen and brown ink brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink at left upper and right margins
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt 1880
Title: Scene from Ancient History
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Pen and brown ink brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink at left upper and right margins.
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