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James McNeill Whistler

Mother and Child, No. 1

1891 and 1895
Transfer lithograph with scraping and stumping; second state of two (Chicago); printed in black ink on fine white laid paper
30.2 × 19.7 cm (11.9 × 7.8 in)

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