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Grinding the Axe by William Sidney Mount — VisualArtsDB

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Grinding the Axe

Grinding the Axe

Grinding the Axe

William Sidney Mount

1822–1868

Medium: graphite
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art

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