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William Holman Hunt

My Beautiful Lady (top); Of My Lady in Death (bottom), frontispiece to The Germ, No. 1

1850
Etching on chine paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
20.3 × 12 cm (8 × 4.7 in)

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