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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

A Goose and a Gander with their Goslings Honking in Alarm as Two Foxes with their Cubs Emerge from the Rushes

mid-18th–early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash over black chalk, watercolor and bodycolor
47.8 × 36.7 cm (18.8 × 14.4 in)

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