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Pin-prick Picture, Old Beggar Man

This is a Pin-prick picture. It is dated ca. 1800 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and opaque watercolor on pin-pricked paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.

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Pin-prick Picture, Old Beggar Man; brush and opaque watercolor on pin-pricked paper; 1917-11-3

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