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Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet

Grotesque designs featuring griffin, birds, and dolphins

1830–97
pen and ink, wash and watercolor over graphite on wove paper
49.4 × 32.8 cm (19.4 × 12.9 in)

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