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Once upon a time (the knitting outpost) by Carl Spitzweg — VisualArtsDB

Once upon a time (the knitting outpost)

Once upon a time (the knitting outpost)

1850

Dimensions: 34.5 × 43 cm
Genre: Genre painting

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characters-and-emotionswaitingmilitary-and-soldiers

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