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Charles Samuel Keene

Nil Nisi Bonum

1870/91
Pen and brown ink, with touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
18 × 11.3 cm (7.1 × 4.4 in)

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