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Allegorical Figures: Force, Hercules Strangling the Hydra, Plenty, and Fame
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Pen and brown ink brush and reddish wash traces of white gouache highlighting over red chalk
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Henry Walters 1917
Title: Allegorical Figures: Force, Hercules Strangling the Hydra, Plenty, and Fame
Description:
Pen and brown ink brush and reddish wash traces of white gouache highlighting over red chalk.
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