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Hair Combing by Eric Gill — VisualArtsDB

Hair Combing

Hair Combing

1922

Medium: Wood engraving on cream laid paper tipped at top to ivory card
Dimensions: Image: 10.2 × 6.4 cm (4 1/16 × 2 9/16 in.); Sheet: 12.1 × 7.8 cm (4 13/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 28.3 × 20.4 cm (11 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Genre: wood engraving
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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wood engravingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)

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