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Joseph Wright

Sketches of Male Bodies, possibly after Michelangeolo (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 18 recto)

1774–75
Graphite, brush and yellow wash
23.4 × 17.1 cm (9.2 × 6.7 in)

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