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Heinrich Maria von Hess

Allegories of Faith, Hope, and Charity

1819
Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized), in an inscribed arch on brown paper
31.8 × 35.7 cm (12.5 × 14.1 in)

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