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Document identity
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134251
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There is corn in the sea!
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drawing
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134251
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drawing
title
There is corn in the sea!
date
fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80026778
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13390
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 37 x 53.1 cm (14 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
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France, late 19th-early 20th Century
accession
1956.731
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brush and black ink and watercolor over black crayon
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There is corn in the sea!, fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s. Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931). Brush and black ink and watercolor over black crayon; sheet: 37 x 53.1 cm (14 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection, 1956.731
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description
beige(1) wove paper discolored to yellow-beige in area of image
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; by artist, lower center, in brown watercolor: __ il y a du blé dans la mer! .... ; lower left, in graphite: Guerre Sous-Marine (1) ; lower center, in graphite: "On va dire à Maman que c'est plein de blé, l'eau de mer." ; VERSO, lower center, in graphite: 14
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The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
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2026-05-29 06:52:25.078000
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134251
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Drawings
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DR - French
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brush and black ink and watercolor over black crayon
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male
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1
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photo
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