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Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
33.2 × 25.9 cm (13.1 × 10.2 in)

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