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Ceres Changing the Mocking Boy into a Lizard

n.d.
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over traces of red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
26.3 × 37.7 cm (10.4 × 14.8 in)

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