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Alpine Glacier by American Frederic Edwin Church — VisualArtsDB

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Alpine Glacier

Alpine Glacier

American Frederic Edwin Church

1860

Medium: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard; verso: oil or green ink
Genre: Landscape
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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