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Dante Seizing the Traitor Bocca by the Hair (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: Head of a Cardinal
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Grenville Lindall Winthrop New York bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1943
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Title: Dante Seizing the Traitor Bocca by the Hair (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: Head of a Cardinal
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