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Henry Fuseli

Chrysogone Conceives, in a Ray of Sunshine, Amoretta and Belphoebe (Edmund Spenser, "The Faerie Queene, III, vi)

1800–1810
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19.5 × 27.3 cm (7.7 × 10.7 in)

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