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Henry Fuseli

Male Figure with Left Arm Raised Seen from the Back, and Fragment of Old Man

1770/75
Brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
57.3 × 46.2 cm (22.6 × 18.2 in)

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