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Mercury Chasing Two Harpies

n.d.
Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over red chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on thin tissue
28 × 23.7 cm (11 × 9.3 in)

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