Gustav Heinrich Wolff, end of throne (Aphrodite?), charcoal, parchment, drawing, charcoal on parchment, total: height: cm; width: cm, dated: recto upper right with charcoal: 10 11. 23, sketches, seated figure, throne, history of Venus (Aphrodite), classical modernism, sketch of a female figure sitting on a decorated throne, from the sketchbook 1923. An inscription in Greek script is placed on the throne base; the first line is clearly readable: TΥ Δ ϖ MAkAIΡA - possibly it is an excerpt from the hymn to Aphrodite by the Greek poetess Sappho.

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