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James McNeill Whistler

The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

[1858] later printing
Etching; fourth state of four (Glasgow); printed in black ink on medium weight tan antique laid paper
15.8 × 22.6 cm (6.2 × 8.9 in)

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