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Title: The Engraver Joseph Tourny
Artist:
Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
Sitter:
Portrait of Joseph-Gabriel Tourny (French, 1817–1880)
Date: 1857, printed mid-1860s
Medium: Etching on laid paper; third printing with surface tone
Dimensions:
plate: 9 1/16 x 5 11/16 in. (23 x 14.4 cm)
sheet: 18 15/16 x 13 13/16 in. (48.1 x 35.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number: 27.5.5
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