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Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Zeus
John Flaxman, IILinkedCulture matchlcp-6467d3f86dd0
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, over graphite, on tan wove paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 77262
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- Credit line
- Sidney A. Kent Fund
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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