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Young Father Distressed by His Growing Family
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Pen and brownish-gray ink brush and brown wash over black chalk. A horizontal strip 1.5 cm in height has been added at lower margin and the drawing continued in the same hand.
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs 1978
Title: Young Father Distressed by His Growing Family
Description:
Pen and brownish-gray ink brush and brown wash over black chalk.
A horizontal strip 1.
5 cm in height has been added at lower margin and the drawing continued in the same hand.
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