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Descent to Hell

A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on ivory wove paper, laid down on card.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on ivory wove paper, laid down on card.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Possibly Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825)
or possibly Theodore Matthias von Holst (English, 1810-1844)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Unknown artist

Title

Descent to Hell

Place

Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)

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1760–1850

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on ivory wove paper, laid down on card

Dimensions

25.3 × 20.7 cm (10 × 8 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.1099

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