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Reading by Lamplight by James McNeill Whistler — VisualArtsDB

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Reading by Lamplight

Reading by Lamplight

Reading by Lamplight

James McNeill Whistler

1850

Medium: Steel-faced copper
Genre: Tool and equipment
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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