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Standing on the Base Ground... I Become a Transparent Eyeball (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Standing on the Base Ground... I Become a Transparent Eyeball (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature") — Christopher Pearse Cranch
Christopher Pearse Cranch · Standing on the Base Ground... I Become a Transparent Eyeball (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature") · 1830–92 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain / CC0.
Standing on the Base Ground... I Become a Transparent Eyeball (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature") — Christopher Pearse Cranch

Recorded by The Metropolitan Museum of Art as Christopher Pearse Cranch.

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Christopher Pearse Cranch · Standing on the Base Ground... I Become a Transparent Eyeball (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature") · 1830–92 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain / CC0.

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