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Henry Fuseli

Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel

1800/05
Oil and oil wash, with pen and black ink, charcoal, and touches of incising, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper
71.5 × 57.5 cm (28.1 × 22.6 in)

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