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Brown wash drawing of a queen on a decorated barge with attendants, musicians, a swan prow and a winged torch bearer.

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Cleopatra on the Cydnus to Meet Antony, Alfred Edward Chalon (1821), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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This 1821 drawing by Alfred Edward Chalon, titled Cleopatra on the Cydnus to Meet Antony, shows a richly decorated barge on water. A crowned woman sits beneath a canopy surrounded by attendants, musicians and garlanded figures, while a winged female figure holds a torch near a swan-shaped prow. The work is rendered in brown wash and pen with a classical architectural setting.

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