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Landscape with Towering Cliffs and with Old Trees on a Promontory by a Lake
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Asian Art
Sylvan Barnet and William C. Burto Cambridge MA (by 1971) gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1971.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William C. Burto
Title: Landscape with Towering Cliffs and with Old Trees on a Promontory by a Lake
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