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View of Ancona; verso: Sketch of a Sunset by John Singer Sargent — VisualArtsDB

View of Ancona; verso: Sketch of a Sunset

View of Ancona; verso: Sketch of a Sunset

John Singer Sargent

1869

Medium: Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: brown ink
Dimensions: 15.2 x 24.2 cm (6 x 9 1/2 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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