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Moonlight Scene in Fishing Port

1800-1899
Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash and white gouache, with black chalk, on gray prepared ground, on ivory laid paper, laid down on card
34.5 × 46.2 cm (13.6 × 18.2 in)

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