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William Lock the Younger

Studies of Fairies with a Pair of Hands (possibly representing the Opening of Pandora's Box)

1784
Graphite and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, and white gouache (bodycolor)
38 × 55.3 cm (15 × 21.8 in)

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