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Joseph Mallord William Turner: The Lake of Zug, watercolor over graphite, 298 x 466 mm, 1843 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marquand Fund, 1959, Accession ID: 59.120); image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photographed by Schecter Lee

Joseph Mallord William Turner:The Lake of Zug, watercolor over graphite, 298 x 466 mm, 1843 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marquand Fund, 1959, Accession ID: 59.120); image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photographed by Schecter Lee

 

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