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Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - "How many eggs?" by Winslow Homer — VisualArtsDB

Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - "How many eggs?"

Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - "How many eggs?"

1874

Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: image: 34.2 × 23.2 cm (13 7/16 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 39.8 × 27 cm (15 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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