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Karl Friedrich Thiele|Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Design for the Opera: The Magic Flute, Act I, Scene I

1847–49
Aquatint printed in color and hand colored
23.9 × 36.8 cm (9.4 × 14.5 in)

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