The Bridge at Shoreham
ca. 1829 · Pen and brown ink, brush and black and gray wash and white gouache (bodycolor), over graphite, on gray-brown paper · sheet: 8 11/16 x 10 15/16 in. (22.1 x 27.8 cm)
Palmer, The Bridge at Shoreham, ca. 1829. Pen and brown ink, brush and black and gray wash and white gouache (bodycolor), over graphite, on gray-brown paper.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
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