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Joseph Wright

An Opening in a Cloudy Sky (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 13 recto)

1774–75
Pen and ink, brush and brown and green wash, over graphite
23.4 × 17.1 cm (9.2 × 6.7 in)

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