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Alexander Jackson Davis

Façade Design and Old Plan for the First Merchant's Exchange, New York (unexecuted; front elevation and plan)

ca. 1829
Graphite, ink and watercolor
25.4 × 16.8 cm (10 × 6.6 in)

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