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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Frontispiece for Heft IV of "Homer nach Antiken gezeichnet", Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterik, 1801–05 and Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, 1821

ca. 1796
Etching with black chalk; touched proof impression
45.2 × 35.7 cm (17.8 × 14.1 in)

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