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Clothed Him in Lincoln Green
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© artist, artist's estate, or other rights holders
Ernest H. Shepard
(English, 1879 - 1976)
Clothed Him in Lincoln Green
Watercolor on illustration board
1961
10 × 7 1/2 in. (25.4 × 19.1 cm)
82.16.308
© artist, artist's estate, or other rights holders
Gift of Jane Collette Wilcox, 1982
Not on view
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