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Joseph Pennell

The Baptismal Font of Cervantés, Santa Maria la Mayor, Alcalá

c. 1903
Oiled charcoal with stumping and erasing, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on off-white wood pulp laminate board
28.2 × 21.7 cm (11.1 × 8.5 in)

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