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Antoine Dieu

Alexander the Great Plans World Conquest

n.d.
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, pieced and laid down on cream wove paper
23.1 × 41.4 cm (9.1 × 16.3 in)

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