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James McNeill Whistler

View of a Coast Line (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)

1854–55
Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
1.6 × 10.8 cm (0.6 × 4.3 in)

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