Half-length nude girl, left arm uplifted, by Degas

An image of Half-length nude girl, left arm uplifted. Degas, Edgar (French, 1834-1917). Charcoal heightened with white on tracing paper, height 539 mm, width 388 mm.

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Half-length nude girl, left arm uplifted. Degas, Edgar (French, 1834-1917). Charcoal heightened with white on tracing paper, height 539 mm, width 388 mm.

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Accession Number: PD.35-1978
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 757 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 738.08kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2016:11:01 11:00:58

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