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Painting of a green wave breaking on a rocky shore under a stormy sky, with a wreck in the surf.

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The Shore of the Turquoise Sea, Albert Bierstadt (1878), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A large green wave curls and breaks over a shoreline beneath a dark, stormy sky, with white foam spilling across the water. A broken wooden mast or spar juts from the surf near a rocky outcrop, and a distant ship is visible on the horizon.

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1878

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