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One can only guess at the strange psychosexual narrative that lay behind the making of this image and others in a private album that featured a small cast of characters repeatedly bound, beheaded, or burned at the stake, sometimes at the hands of their own doppelgangers.
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Title: [Scene of Murder and Decapitation]
Artist:
Unknown (French)
Date: ca. 1870
Medium: Photocollage of albumen silver prints and paper with applied media
Dimensions:
21.9 x 27.9cm (8 5/8 x 11in.)
Frame: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Classifications: Photographs, Collages
Credit Line: Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000
Object Number: 2000.332
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