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A Border Family by William Rimmer — VisualArtsDB

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A Border Family

A Border Family

A Border Family

1862

Medium: Graphite and white chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions: image: 24.4 x 43.8 cm (9 5/8 x 17 1/4 in.) actual: 27.4 x 43.7 cm (10 13/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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White chalk smudges in upper half-- maybe accidental?

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