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    279 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    370 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "Twelve Etchings from Nature: The Unsafe"12 records

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The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm) by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1858 · Etching, printed in black ink on tan (darkened) chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of four (Glasgow)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Twelve Etchings from Nature:  The Unsafe Tenement by James McNeill Whistler, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Twelve Etchings from Nature: The Unsafe Tenement

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1858 · Print, etching

Cleared · CC0

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The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm) by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1858 · Etching, printed in black ink on gray chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of four (Glasgow)

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm) by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

[1858] later printing · Etching; fourth state of four (Glasgow); printed in black ink on medium weight tan antique laid paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm) by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

[1858] later printing · Etching; fourth state of four (Glasgow); Printed in black ink on on modern medium weight dark cream laid paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm) by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1858 · Etching on tan chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of four (Glasgow)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Title Page from the "French Set" (Douze Eaux-Fortes d'Après Nature) by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title Page from the "French Set" (Douze Eaux-Fortes d'Après Nature)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1858 · Etching on tan chine on off-white wove paper (chine collé); only state (Glasgow)

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Gleanings from Nature: A Series of Twelve Etchings

John Mallows Youngman (d. 1899)

1874 · Illustrations: etching

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Courtesan, from "Twelve Etchings, New York, Perls Galleries"

Nahum Tschacbasov (d. 1984)

1947 · Etching

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Family, from "Twelve Etchings, New York, Perls Galleries"

Nahum Tschacbasov (d. 1984)

1947 · Etching

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Fisherman, from "Twelve Etchings, New York, Perls Galleries"

Nahum Tschacbasov (d. 1984)

1947 · Etching

In copyright

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The MetSimilar

No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Mermaid, from "Twelve Etchings, New York, Perls Galleries"

Nahum Tschacbasov (d. 1984)

1947 · Etching

In copyright

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