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Henry Fuseli

The Changeling

c. 1780
Charcoal and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on white tissue paper
53.1 × 63.6 cm (20.9 × 25 in)

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