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Shipwreck by John Martin — VisualArtsDB

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Shipwreck

Shipwreck

1816

Medium: Black ink, gray wash, touches of graphite, and scratchwork on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 23.4 x 33.6 cm (9 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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