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James McNeill Whistler

The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

1858
Etching, printed in black ink on gray chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of four (Glasgow)
15.6 × 22.5 cm (6.1 × 8.9 in)

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