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New York’s West Point Foundry inspired artist John Ferguson Weir’s dramatic oil on canvas Forging the Shaft.
©The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Image source: Art Resource, NY
New York’s West Point Foundry inspired artist John Ferguson Weir’s dramatic oil on canvas Forging the Shaft.
©The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Image source: Art Resource, NY