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Christopher Pearse Cranch

I Expand and Live in the Warm Day Like Corn and Melons (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

1830–92
Pen and brown ink
21.3 × 14.7 cm (8.4 × 5.8 in)

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