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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

Study for How a Devil in Woman's Likeness Would Have Tempted Sir Bors

1893
Pen and black ink, with brush and black wash, over graphite, on tan wove paper
26.5 × 38.9 cm (10.4 × 15.3 in)

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