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Low Water in the Mississippi
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Hand-colored lithograph with touches of gum arabic
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Adele S. Colgate 1962
Title: Low Water in the Mississippi
Description:
Hand-colored lithograph with touches of gum arabic.
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