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The Practitioners of the Visual Arts (upper half of torn sheet)

After Jan van der Straet

Research in Progress

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund

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Engraving on laid paper
1938-88-8769
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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