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Esther before Ahasuerus or Solomon and Sheba with Cross from Wood of Adam's Tomb

1590/1600
Pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
11 × 17.1 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in)

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