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Tortoise

Tortoise

1807–1891

Medium: Painting; ink and color on paper (tanzaku)
Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 2 3/8 in. (37.5 x 6 cm)
Genre: Paintings
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Tortoise by Shibata Zeshin — VisualArtsDB