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Christopher Pearse Cranch

Build Your Own World. So Fast Will Disagreeable Things...Vanish (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

1830–92
Pen and brown ink
14.7 × 21.7 cm (5.8 × 8.5 in)

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