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The Guard Tents (Recto) (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler

Credit: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970
c. 1854
Black ink on brown wove paper
2.7 x 6.8cm
1970.121.68
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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