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Design for a sarcophagus with two mourning figures
John Gibson, ca. 1850
- Artist
- John Gibson (British, Gwynedd, Wales 1790–1866 Rome)
- Date
- ca. 1850
- Medium
- Graphite, with inscriptions in pen and brown ink
- Size
- sheet: 13 15/16 x 8 in. (35.4 x 20.3 cm)
- Type
- Drawings
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Licence
- Public domain: free to use, no permission needed
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