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Winslow Homer

"Orrin, Make Haste, I Am Perishing!" (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. VI)

August 1868
Wood engraving
11.7 × 17.5 cm (4.6 × 6.9 in)

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