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James Thornhill

Design for Ceiling Fresco: Apollo and the Muses with Minerva Destroying Ignorance

n.d.
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, over black chalk and graphite, on tan laid paper, partially laid down
27.1 × 33.2 cm (10.7 × 13.1 in)

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