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Odilon Redon

And I Saw an Angel Come Down from Heaven, Having the Key of the Bottomless Pit and a Great Chain in His Hand, plate 8 of 12

1899
Lithograph in black on cream China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
30.4 × 23.2 cm (12 × 9.1 in)

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