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Sketches of a Globe

Sketches of a Globe

Sketches of a Globe

John Singer Sargent

Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 16.1 x 24.1 cm (6 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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This page is part of a segment of a sketchbook that was previously inserted into the back of 1937.7.25. This sketchbook segment is unrelated to that sketchbook.

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