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The Assassination by James Ensor — VisualArtsDB

The Assassination

The Assassination

1888

Medium: Etching on zinc in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions: Image/plate: 17.8 × 23.7 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 28.3 × 39.9 cm (11 3/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
Genre: etching
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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