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Soldier Loading a Rifle


Drawing: Black chalk, white chalk on gray-green paper, circa 1863
16 7/8 x 12 15/16 ins. (428 x 328 mm)
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
1912-12-99

 

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