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Copernicus

A work made of black and white chalk, graphite, touches of blue pencil, with scale in pen and brown ink, on gray wove paper with blue fibers, squared in graphite.
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  • A work made of black and white chalk, graphite, touches of blue pencil, with scale in pen and brown ink, on gray wove paper with blue fibers, squared in graphite.

Date:

1867

Artist:

James Nasmyth
Scottish, 1808-1890

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

James Nasmyth

Title

Copernicus

Place

United Kingdom (Artist's nationality:)

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1867

Medium

Black and white chalk, graphite, touches of blue pencil, with scale in pen and brown ink, on gray wove paper with blue fibers, squared in graphite

Dimensions

33 × 48.2 cm (13 × 19 in.)

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments

Reference Number

2000.406

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