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James McNeill Whistler

Steamboats off the Tower

1875

Drypoint, third state of four (Glasgow); printed in black ink on ivory laid paper with watermark: Arms of Amsterdam

15.4 × 22.5 cm (6.1 × 8.9 in)

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