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Joseph Wright

Sketch of a Female Nude Resembling the Medici Venus (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 20 recto)

1774–75
Graphite, brush and green wash
23.4 × 17.1 cm (9.2 × 6.7 in)

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