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Peacock Feather

Peacock Feather

1877

Medium: Watercolor, over traces of graphite, on buff wove card
Dimensions: 26.7 × 19.4 cm (10 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Genre: watercolor
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)paintgraphiteprints and drawingwatercolorwater-base paint

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Peacock Feather by John Ruskin — VisualArtsDB