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View of Aletsch Glacier by John Singer Sargent — VisualArtsDB

View of Aletsch Glacier

View of Aletsch Glacier

John Singer Sargent

1871–1872

Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: actual: 38.9 x 27.1 cm (15 5/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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