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Landscape with Mount Vesuvius
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Department of Drawings
To the artist's sisters Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent at his death 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum 1937.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
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