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James McNeill Whistler

Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate

1854–55

Etching, printed in black ink on a complete sheet of linen-textured ivory laid paper with MBM watermark appearing twice; only state (Glasgow)

14.6 × 25.9 cm (5.7 × 10.2 in)

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