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Joseph Pennell

The Towering City, Toledo

c. 1903
Oiled charcoal, with stumping and erasing, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on off-white wood pulp laminate board
21.8 × 28.2 cm (8.6 × 11.1 in)

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