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Skin Scrapers, No. 1
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Rights: © Estate of Frank Brangwyn / Bridgeman Images
Department of Prints
Irwin D. Hoffman Collector gift to Harvard University. To the Department of Earth and Plentary Sciences.
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences transfer to HUAM 1999.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Transfer from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Gift of Irwin D. and Robert D. Hoffman
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