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Grinding the Axe

William Sidney Mount

Cleveland Museum of Art

A pencil sketch on off-white paper depicts two men. The man on the left is hunched over with both arms on a surface in front of him; his head is tilted down. He wears a hat and an apron over his clothes. The man on the right stands behind him, leaning over, with one hand on the surface and one on the other man's back. The standing man's body faces right; his head is turned left and down. He wears a hat. A faint pencil inscription near the top right appears upside down. The sketch is titled "Grinding the Axe" by William Sidney Mount.

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1263 × 641 px
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