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Fish Writing Letters, for "The Artful Ant," by Oliver Herford by Oliver Herford — VisualArtsDB

Fish Writing Letters, for "The Artful Ant," by Oliver Herford

Fish Writing Letters, for "The Artful Ant," by Oliver Herford

1891

Medium: Black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 18 x 17.7 cm (7 1/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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American

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