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'Humility versus Pride' a young man imploring an older man with other figures in front of them; folio 75 (recto) from the Madrid Album 'B'
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Brush and point of brush carbon black washes on laid paper
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1935
Title: 'Humility versus Pride' a young man imploring an older man with other figures in front of them; folio 75 (recto) from the Madrid Album 'B'
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Brush and point of brush carbon black washes on laid paper.
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