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Military scene with a battle in a village

August Beck | August Wilhelm Schulgen

ca. 1840–60

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Plate: 5 1/2 × 7 1/16 in. (14 × 17.9 cm) Sheet: 10 9/16 × 13 1/4 in. (26.9 × 33.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Walter H. Smith, 1935

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About August Beck

1823–1872 • Switzerland

Swiss, Basel 1823–1872 Thun|

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